[mythtv] Freesat (UK)

[Steven Ellis]

On Tue, 13 May 2008 15:30:25 +0100, "James Buckley"
<xanium4332 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 13/05/2008, Stuart Auchterlonie <stuarta at squashedfrog.net> wrote:
> 
>> James Buckley wrote:
>> > Although not exactly on topic, is there any chance that patches to get
>> > Freesat's EPG would make it into 0.21-fixes. 0.22 could be a while,
> and
>> > the new EPG will make a lot of people's lives easier. I know it's not
>> > directly a fix for a bug, but neither was Schedule Direct (although I
>> > can see that the new EPG is not quite as critical as SD was).
>> >
>>
>> Well lets just get them working in head first....
>>
>>
>> Stuart
> 
> 
> Sorry, eagerness got the better of me...
> Also, at the moment the default channel numbers returned from a scan are
> up
> into the 10,000+ range(chanel 6301 being BBC 1). Now I'm guessing the new
> Freesat STB's won't use those numbers (rather numbers like 101 etc..). Do
> we
> know where the channel numbers can be found, with the EPG perhaps?

If you can grab a sample of the NIT and BAT/SDT tables I can take a look,
but I'm pretty sure they will be using the LCN descriptor in the DVB stream
to set the channel numbers.

Steve