[mythtv] DVB-S with no SDT / NIT tables (REDUX)

[Dean Pemberton]

Hi everyone.

Just over a month ago Steven Ellis made a post here regarding an issue 
very important to MythTV users in New Zealand and Australia.  You can 
view the post and thread here.

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/296989?page=last


In summary the problem is that one DVB-S provider has chosen to 
broadcast their content in a way which does not use SDT/NIT tables.
This is FTA content (unscrambled and not restricted) it is unknown why 
they do this.

This content can be viewed on a number of STB and other Linux PVR 
solutions by inputting the v/a PIDs which are well known and widely 
available.  MythTV on the other hand, due to the way that it uses the 
PMT/PAT to get the PIDs has no way of allowing a user to enter these by 
hand.

There have been a number of suggestions in the previous thread as to how 
a solution to this could be implemeted (from DVB PID caching to 
hardcoding PIDs for certain channels), but it seems to have lost a bit 
of traction.  I'd just like to reiterate that this feature will provide 
a large benefit to the majority of DVB-S MythTV users in Aus/NZ and we 
are more than willing to provide all the help we can to work out a solution.

Thanks for your help everybody.  Keep up the great work!


Dean