Channel tuning
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MythFrontend reports Live TV channel tuning status with a sequence of letters. These letters let you know what's going on with the backend as it tries to tune to a channel.
Except for t/F/T, lower case = seen, upper case = seen & good.
Code | Reflects | Comment |
t/F/T | Tuning Status | Pending/Failed/Success [25543] |
l/L | Signal Lock | This could be seen by PVR-250/BTTV users |
a/A | PAT | Program Association Table (any recording transmitted in MPEG) |
m/M | PMT | Program Map Table (any recording transmitted in MPEG) |
g/G | MGT | Master Guide Table (ATSC only) |
v/V | VCT | Virtual Channel Table (ATSC only) |
n/N | NIT | Network Information Table (DVB only) |
s/S | SDT | Service Description Table (DVB only) |
For reference see TV::UpdateOSDSignal(). (Key words for search engines: Partial Lock, TL_, TLAM_V, _LAM, LAM, LMs)