[mythtv] EIT sparadically broken in trunk

Mark Buechler mark.buechler at gmail.com
Sun Jul 9 15:23:59 UTC 2006


Yes, I still have this problem and no I haven't really investigated it. The
active scanner seems to pick up all the EIT data fine, however, the passive
scanner seemingly only gets now/next. I haven't been bothered by it too much
since active scanning works well.

- Mark.

On 7/9/06, Torbjörn Jansson <torbjorn.jansson at mbox200.swipnet.se> wrote:
>
> (replying to a mail almost a month old)
>
> mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org <> wrote:
> > I've further narrowed it down. It seems (for me anyway) that
> > the active scanner works as expected. However, the passive
> > scanner many times fails to pickup PID 0x12 when there's more than
> > now/next available.
> >
> > - Mark.
> >
> >
> > On 6/15/06, Torbjörn Jansson
> > <torbjorn.jansson at mbox200.swipnet.se> wrote:
> >
> >       > One of my providers has 2day EIT available on one transport.
> >       > MythTV used to scan EIT for this provider just fine, however,
> >       > something seems to have changed in the EIT code which breaks
> >       > it. Some times I'm able to get EIT, however the logs show     >
> many
> >       of the following: >
> >       > 2006-06-14 18:58:35.174 DVBRec(0): Unknown PID 0x12
> >       > 2006-06-14 18:58:35.174 DVBRec(0): Unknown PID 0x12   >
> >       > Normal now+next works for all other channels on other
> >       > transports for this provider. I can provide any dvbsnoop
> >       > output requested. Could this be a table parsing problem which
> >       > causes Myth to thing 0x12 isn't available? I've tested 10060
> >       > & 10187 and both show the problem sparadically (more
> > often than not).
> >
> >       I'm having similar problems with eit.
> >       Now/next works but i'm not getting the 2-3 day guide
> > data as before.
> >       I don't know if this is a myth thing or some change my
> > cable provider did or
> >       maybe a combination.
> >
> >       I know the guide data is being transmitted because the
> > guide on my dreambox
> >       works just fine.
> >
> >       I'm not seeing the unknows pid things in my backend log.
> >       I haven't tried the eit branch, is this kind of stuff
> > likley to have been
> >       fixed in that branch? If so, is it possibel to test
> > that branch and then go
> >       back to trunk if things don't work any better?
> >
> >       Or maybe it will get merged soon so i should just wait a bit?
>
> Mark, did you find out what's wrong with eit?
> I'm still seeing only now/next data.
>
> Should i open a ticket for this?
>
> I can provide logs, dvbsnoop dumps or other stuff if someone wants it.
> This problem is with dvb-c (technotrend dvb-c v2.1 ff card)
> I know 2-3 days of eit is sent since i have a cablebox (dreambox) that get
> eit data just fine when i tune in to one channel.
>
>
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