Re: gnome-dvb-daemon vs boxstard

[Sebastian Pölsterl <sebp k-d-w org>]

Am 28.04.2010 20:24, schrieb Tony Houghton:
> I remembered another little technical point. Vdr and some other DVB
> programs look up and save a service's PIDs when doing a channel scan. Is
> that how gdd works? The trouble with this is that several channels (at
> least here in the UK) are only on for part of the day (usually replaced
> by another channel in the other half of the day) and their PIDs aren't
> available in the PMT the rest of the time, so VDR can't tune to them
> unless you've scanned at the right time of day. I think VDR's developers
> are too focused on making switching channels as fast as possible, but
> I've found that looking up the PMT is very fast so it's better to look
> up the PIDs on demand instead of storing them.

PIDs are stored in the channels.conf file, therefore they are fixed. You 
have to add those channels with correct pids manually I guess. You could 
you create a list of channels if don't know the PIDs beforehand?

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Greetings,
Sebastian Pölsterl