Store and call settings for TV and DVB

[say10]

Any news on this? It seems very odd. My playlist in UK (windows):
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:1,BBC ONE
#EXTVLCOPT:dvb-bandwidth=8
#EXTVLCOPT:dvb-caching=300
#EXTVLCOPT:program=4167
dvbt://frequency=810000000

#EXTINF:2,BBC TWO
#EXTVLCOPT:dvb-bandwidth=8
#EXTVLCOPT:dvb-caching=300
#EXTVLCOPT:program=4231
dvbt://frequency=810000000

#EXTINF:3,ITV1
#EXTVLCOPT:dvb-bandwidth=8
#EXTVLCOPT:dvb-caching=300
#EXTVLCOPT:program=8257
dvbt://frequency=786000000

BBC One and BBC Two both automatically choose the right program (SID) but for all other channels I have to manually select the right program which is almost always at the end of a list of other SIDs, none of which work.

[Lotesdelere]

Any news on this?

BBC One and BBC Two both automatically choose the right program (SID) but for all other channels I have to manually select the right program which is almost always at the end of a list of other SIDs, none of which work.

Does it work any better with today nightly build ?

http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/win32/?C=M;O=D

Get the most recent BRANCH version.

[VLC_help]

AFAIK --program(s) was fixed in yesterday http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/v ... 02503.html so it should work in VLC 1.1.0

[Lotesdelere]

AFAIK --program(s) was fixed in yesterday http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/v ... 02503.html so it should work in VLC 1.1.0

From my tests it is now both better and worse than with v1.1.0 release:

Better because the behaviour described in Say10's post is now gone and the channels are now directly tuning and we don't need to go to the menu to select them,

Worse because some of the channels are not tuning at all, even if they are on the same frequency as another channel which is playing fine. VLC seems to lock on the channel, displays its name and the duration but no video is seen and no audio is heard, and nothing can be changed / selected from the menus.

For instance, in my case, channel 1 is working fine but if I want to switch to channel 7 or to channel 12, which are on the same frequency as channel 1, they just don't work at all. So I close VLC 1.1.1 and I open VLC 1.0.5 and now all of the channels are working fine.

So this commit is a good step forward compared to what we have in v1.1.0 release but it's surely not the final step to me as the regression from v1.0.5 is still there.

[say10]

Yes I can confirm that --programs at least has some effect now however as lotesdelere says it has not come without penalty. For instance take these 4 channels

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#EXTINF:3,ITV1 #EXTVLCOPT:dvb-bandwidth=8 #EXTVLCOPT:dvb-caching=300 #EXTVLCOPT:program=8257 dvbt://frequency=786000000 #EXTINF:4,Channel 4 #EXTVLCOPT:dvb-bandwidth=8 #EXTVLCOPT:dvb-caching=300 dvbt://frequency=786000000 #EXTINF:5,FIVE #EXTVLCOPT:dvb-bandwidth=8 #EXTVLCOPT:dvb-caching=300 #EXTVLCOPT:program=8500 dvbt://frequency=786000000 #EXTINF:6,ITV2 #EXTVLCOPT:dvb-bandwidth=8 #EXTVLCOPT:dvb-caching=300 #EXTVLCOPT:program=8325 dvbt://frequency=786000000

ITV1 and Channel 4 display as QVC a channel on a 730000000 SID 13120 - Five displays channel five completely normally and ITV2 displays the channel name and programme information correctly but produces no sound or video.

[americhanac]

just for me (and others looking for the same info) - this is not applicable for DVB-S TS streams... unfortunately.

[Boy2006]

program = PID?

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#EXTINF:3

What does the Number mean in the context?
I found some other Methode:
#EXTINF:1,Radio
#EXTVLCOPT:dvb-bandwidth=8
#EXTVLCOPT:program=14109
dvb-t://frequency=498000000

So which is the right one?