Analog tv channel names uses program name or channel number (2 Viewers)

[doornjoostje]

Please check my system for details.

When I scan with my Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-500 MCE Dual i've get in stead of the channel name the name of the program or in some cases the number of the scanned number.
I use driver 2.0.48.25037.

I've also use the new MPFileWriter, see post one of latest SVN build.

Attached the logging and jpg with chosen settings.
The jpg also shows the incorrect channel names!!!!!
Hope anybody can help me out.

 

[Pe2RM]

Same for me with a analog PVR350. Mostly the program name, sometimes only the channel number.
Don't think its a MP problem because my Samsung TV provides me the same information after a channel change. Perhaps the cable provider (CASEMA) put it in the analog TV signal, but i don't know how this can be checked or tested.

 

[doornjoostje]

I've got home (now called ziggo).
So that would make 2 cableproviders.

The strange thing is, that when you do a analog scan with your philips installation program embedded into the TV, the correct channel names are provided. So should be possible.

 

[chrik]

Got the same problem with Hauppauge 150 in Denmark. Cable provider Yousee (TDC).

 

[Pe2RM]

Since last week Casema now also belongs to Ziggo.

I did a scan on my girlfriends PC with MediaCenter on the same Casema provider, it came up with the channel names. So it seems that Channelname & Programname are included in the signal.
Together with the report from Denmark it could be a MP glitch. Perhaps MP extracts the wrong field out of the signal.

Does someone knows how this information is stored in the stream, and how this can be checked out?

 

[doornjoostje]

Anybody with the same error and knows a MP release where this is working?

 

[Ries]

I have installed MP last weekend (for the first time, decided to ban M$ with their #@@*&@$ Vista) and have the same with my PVR-500 from Hauppauge. It seems indeed that MP is fetching the wrong field.

My solution was to change the DB by hand. As a developer/programmer I work al lot with DB's so that was quickly done. For those who knows also some about that, you can change it by renaming the 'name' field in the 'channel' table to the correct one.

Richard

 

[doornjoostje]

I have installed MP last weekend (for the first time, decided to ban M$ with their #@@*&@$ Vista) and have the same with my PVR-500 from Hauppauge. It seems indeed that MP is fetching the wrong field.

My solution was to change the DB by hand. As a developer/programmer I work al lot with DB's so that was quickly done. For those who knows also some about that, you can change it by renaming the 'name' field in the 'channel' table to the correct one.

Richard

Hallo Richard,

Can you provide the SQL query?
Is it possible to share it in some kind of executable script?
Thanks in advance!

 

[Ries]

Please use this at your own risk!

The SQL query, in the correct database ('tvlibrary'?), for changing the name in a channel is:

UPDATE channel SET name = '<NAME>' WHERE idChannel = '<CHANNEL_NUM>'

For <NAME> you use the name you want to give the channel (like NL1 or BBC1) and for <CHANNEL_NUM> the idChannel number of the row you like the name changed.

To view the content of the CHANNEL TABLE you enter the following query:

SELECT * FROM channel

Good luck!

Richard

 

[Pe2RM]

Fyi, i changed both 'name' & 'displayName' fields. Sometimes its easier to do by hand then creating a script for it, the information depends on your local situation where only the channel number can be linked to a channel name.