Scanning M3U list createsw duplicate channels (3 Viewers)

[mylle]

Hello,

Just got a Digital Devices Octopus NET rack network tuner. When scanning in mediaportal with the attached .m3u file it creates a lot of duplicate channels. What could be wrong?

Regards
Jacob

 

[mylle]

Anyone?

 

[mm1352000]

Hi Jacob

When scanning in mediaportal with the attached .m3u file it creates a lot of duplicate channels.

Yes, I would expect that, given the contents of the m3u file.

What could be wrong?

The URLs.

They all contain the DVB Service Description Table PID. Therefore all channels for the corresponding transmitter will be found each time you scan one transmitter.

Example:

#EXTINF:0,1. ARD - ARD/Das Erste
rtsp://192.168.100.111:554/?freq=250&msys=dvbc&sr=6875&mtype=256qam&pids=0,16,17,18,20,100,101,102,103,106,105,104

The channels that will be found are all channels on the same transmitter (for DVB-C, frequency):

• 1. ARD - ARD/Das Erste
• 101. Borch Teknik - dk4 HD
• 801. Folketinget - FOLKETINGET HD
• 901. GLOBECAST - France 24
• 1301. Nordjyske Medier - 24Nordjyske HD
• 1701. Radio - Teracom - DR-Nyheder
• 1804. Radio - Waoo - NRK mP3
• 2903. Waoo - DR Ultra
• 3001. ZDFvision - ZDF

(You can see this by checking all the channels with "freq=250" in the URL.)

...but actually only the original/target channel (1. ARD - ARD/Das Erste) will work.

To fix, remove the SDT PID (17) from the PID list in each URL.

Example:
rtsp://192.168.100.111:554/?freq=250&msys=dvbc&sr=6875&mtype=256qam&pids=0,16,17,18,20,100,101,102,103,106,105,104

...should be changed to...
rtsp://192.168.100.111:554/?freq=250&msys=dvbc&sr=6875&mtype=256qam&pids=0,16,18,20,100,101,102,103,106,105,104


P.S. You can edit m3u files in any text editor (notepad, wordpad etc.).

 

[mylle]

Hi MM,

Thanks alot for your help. I will look into changing this

Regards
Jacob

 

[mylle]

Hi @mm1352000

I finally got back to this. I removed all ",17" in each url and tried scanning again but unfortunately this does not make a difference. Its still creating duplicates.

Have I misunderstood your directions?

Regards
Jacob

UPDATE: nevermind. apparently i did not manage to save the file i edited before scanning