[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #1520: Don't automatically add new channels in mythfilldatabase

Daniel Kristjansson danielk at cuymedia.net
Sun Mar 19 16:33:07 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 11:26 -0500, Steven Adeff wrote:
> On 3/19/06, MythTV <mythtv at cvs.mythtv.org> wrote:
> > #1520: Don't automatically add new channels in mythfilldatabase
> >  I understand your reasoning, but I think the current behaviour for dvb is
> >  fundamentally broken, as when new channels are added, untunable channels
> >  get created in mythtv.  I'm not sure how that is a good thing.  Would you
> >  accept the patch if it was dvb specific (so only people using dvb/atsc
> >  wouldn't have new channels added automatically)?
> this is also the case with people using cable tuners. For instance,
> some new In Demand channels were added to the listing which for all
> intents and purposes are unusable in MythTV but they automatically got
> added. It would be nice to have some sort of interface to be able to
> select which new channels are used.

Chris Pinkham's point is not that the channels should be added, it is
that the channels should not just be ignored. A patch which removed the
channels from the zap2it listings would be accepted. A patch which
allowed editing the zap2it listings from within MythTV would be cheered.

-- Daniel



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