Hi, I think I've just found some rather buggy behaviours, but as it is the first time I've used this part of myth, I wanted to post here to check I wasn't just being an idiot.
Firstly, some background: In Aus some of the stations transmit HD channels as well as SD channels (talking DVB here). The two channels have exactly the same programming, just different resolution for some of the programs. I have scanned in all those channels, and I have guide data that lets me know when the HD channels are actually transmitting HD content (separate XMLTV ids, the HD XMLTV channel only has data for the HD programs). In general I only want the SD content, but I was hoping to play with HD sometime soon. So I wanted to have the HD channels viewable, but usually hidden. To do this I was going to reduce their rank so that any scheduled recordings would be taken from the SD channels, and I was going to mark the normal channels as favourites, and then have the EPG only show favourites by default. Setting channel ranks: It seems that the rank selection in the channel editor in mythtv-setup is broken. You can adjust the rank, but it never gets saved. Once you leave a channel page, and then re- enter it, the rank is set to 0... even if it is non-zero in mysql. You CAN set the channel rank from within mythfrontend. If you set it there, then it shows up in the database. Setting favourite channels: This just seems broken. I went in to the EPG and hit '?'. Myth added '*'s to the beginning and end of the channel. I could hit / and the channels would move around. It didn't seem to hide non-favourites so much as move them to the bottom of the list. Then after I played with it for a while trying to figure out exactly what was going on I got it into a state where I had 5 callsigns/icons down the left hand side, but only two, very tall, rows of channel information in the EPG. Surely the callsigns should always match the actual guide information? Should hiding the non-favourite channels actually hide them, or is this a documentation issue and it is meant to just change the sorting? At the moment I've just set the HD channels to invisible again, and am assuming their rank stops them from picking up stray recordings. We'll see how that goes. Be well, Will :-} _______________________________________________ mythtv-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
