On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Michael Krufky wrote: > David Engel wrote: >> Here's a very simple patch to scan that I've found useful while >> playing around with my new Fusion HDTV card. If scan detects a >> service that can't be named, it generates one based on the service_id. >> This can leas to duplicate names in the resulting channels file if >> unnamed services are found on different frequencies with the same >> service_id. This patch remedies the problem by prefixing each >> generated name with a unique number. >> >> David > > I think that's a cool idea, but I don't think everybody is going to want that > enabled by default. Could you make a command line argument that would enable > this behavior, and leave it disabled by default? For ATSC I would do it vice versa: enable generated channel numbers by default, and disable by option. OTOH the best option would be to find out how to get the real channel name. There must be a way, because the set top boxes are able to get it. Currently when ATSC/QAM channels don't have a name, it is because they don't provide a PSIP section. Maybe there is something else, maybe even provider-specific. regards, Patrick.
