Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:20:01AM +1100, Peter Urbanec wrote: > > Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > >Peter, your Melbourne data is quite old. > > >The frequency for SBS changed 2-3 months ago from 536.5 MHz to 536.625 > > >MHz. The PIDs for channel 9 changed about 1 month ago. > > > > Thanks for the updates. As you can appreciate, keeping these configs up > > to date in Australia is not easy. The broadcasters keep on changing the > > setup with an alarming frequency, especially the channel names and PIDs. > > Rescanning needs to be done by local residents - since I can't exactly > > point my antenna at a transmitter 1,000km away :-) > > Peter, > > That makes sense. (Sorry, I came off too negative in the quote above.) > > Channel 9 seems to enjoy changing their pids regularly. I don't > understand why they would bother but it's happened a couple of times > recently. I think that ideally user software would not store the pids > but perhaps the service IDs and locate the pids by doing a scan > themselves. That's possibly too slow to do on every channel change but > the results could be cached for a limited period etc. I think I read > that there is some work going into MythTV to do this.
The VDR developer version does exactly that. PID changes are detected and applied fully automatically. Klaus -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.