[mythtvnz] EPG Issues

[Steven Ellis]

On Sun, May 18, 2008 5:54 pm, Hadley Rich wrote:
> On Sun, 18 May 2008 17:39:04 Steven Ellis wrote:
>> 1 - There are the conflicting PIDS between Sky and freeview.
>
> Yeah, that's why it is often One and Movie Greats.
>
>> 2. dvbsnoop seems to pick up some cached EIT data from the card if you
>> don't give it a chance to flush
>
> Yes I recall a discussion on the before and figured that that was likely
> the
> issue. What intrigues me though is why I've only seen the issue on
> Saturdays.
>
>> What i do is run dvbsnoop and dump a 1000 packets before I run the EPG
>> grab
>>
>>  dvbsnoop -adapter ${CARD} -n 1000 -nph 0x12
>
> Good plan, I had a sleep in there which doesn't seem to be working
> anymore.
> I've added something like that to my script now instead, hopefully that
> fixes
> it.

Yeah I tried a sleep, but it had unpredictable results. Grabbing a chunk
of data always appears to sort this out.

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