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<blockquote data-quote="mm1352000" data-source="post: 1148024" data-attributes="member: 82144">Yes and no.Yes, some tuner hardware and/or drivers support blind scan.<a href="http://sourceforge.net/p/crazyscan/wiki/Info/" target="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/p/crazyscan/wiki/Info/</a>No, blind scan is not supported by the MS BDA as far as I know. This interface may support it: <a href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd694868(v=vs.85).aspx" target="_blank">https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd694868(v=vs.85).aspx</a> . However, note the comment about only supporting DVB-T... and I'm pretty sure the driver implementations either don't support that interface or don't actually use blind scan.Yes, some - maybe DVBSky only, if I recall correctly - tuner vendor SDKs include information about blind scan support. Other vendors such as TBS keep that information private or restricted, because it involves very low level access to the hardware/driver. The interface can change with different hardware and/or driver and/or firmware versions, and using the interface may possibly put the tuner into an unusable state.No, TV Server (MediaPortal) currently does not support blind scanning.No, I don't intend to add native support for blind scanning. It may be possible to add support through StreamReaderEx BDA or CrazyScan third party interface, I don't know. Even it is possible, it currently isn't on my TODO list.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mm1352000, post: 1148024, member: 82144"] Yes and no. Yes, some tuner hardware and/or drivers support blind scan. [URL]http://sourceforge.net/p/crazyscan/wiki/Info/[/URL] No, blind scan is not supported by the MS BDA as far as I know. This interface may support it: [URL]https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd694868(v=vs.85).aspx[/URL] . However, note the comment about only supporting DVB-T... and I'm pretty sure the driver implementations either don't support that interface or don't actually use blind scan. Yes, some - maybe DVBSky only, if I recall correctly - tuner vendor SDKs include information about blind scan support. Other vendors such as TBS keep that information private or restricted, because it involves very low level access to the hardware/driver. The interface can change with different hardware and/or driver and/or firmware versions, and using the interface may possibly put the tuner into an unusable state. No, TV Server (MediaPortal) currently does not support blind scanning. No, I don't intend to add native support for blind scanning. It may be possible to add support through StreamReaderEx BDA or CrazyScan third party interface, I don't know. Even it is possible, it currently isn't on my TODO list. [/QUOTE]

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