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authorOliver Freyermuth <o.freyermuth@googlemail.com>2023-08-30 21:04:00 +0200
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stream/dvbin: recommend to use specific channels.conf file names
The old mplayer / zap style format is not fully standardized across channel scanners, so autodetection may fail if the file name does not indicate the delivery system.
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@@ -5138,6 +5138,9 @@ DVB
in the mpv configuration directory (usually ``~/.config/mpv``) with the
filename ``channels.conf.{sat,ter,cbl,atsc,isdbt}`` (based on your card
type) or ``channels.conf`` as a last resort.
+ Please note that using specific file name with card type is recommended,
+ since the legacy channel format is not fully standardized
+ so autodetection of the delivery system may fail otherwise.
For DVB-S/2 cards, a VDR 1.7.x format channel list is recommended
as it allows tuning to DVB-S2 channels, enabling subtitles and
decoding the PMT (which largely improves the demuxing).