[sclug] Digital TV card and channel recognition

Alex Butcher lug at assursys.co.uk
Fri Dec 11 21:13:40 UTC 2009


On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Dickon Hood wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 19:03:27 +0000, Alex Butcher wrote:
>
> : I /think/ once you've found one multiplex (e.g. via a manual seed, or brute
> : force scanning), there's information to tell the STB what channels the rest
> : are on.
>
> There is.  It's called the Bouquet Association Table ('BAT' for short; see
> ETSI EN-300-486 (if you have access to it) for details.  If you're
> terminally bored, that is)

[...]

> You'd never guess I've spent the last three years or so doing this stuff,
> would you...

My excuse is that I ended up learning a bit just to administer my own MythTV
box. What's yours? ;-)

Best Regards,
Alex



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