At least for US users, channel numbering for DVB boards is pretty confusing. I was hoping for some info on what the current "best practice" is for setting up DVB channels.
When you do a channel scan, mythtv picks up a channel number from the DVB broadcast. For example, in my area, fox HDTV is "501". However, the datadirect number for fox is "50_1". What I did when I set my box up 3 months ago was to first do a channel scan, and then run mythfilldatabse. This resulted in duplicate entries for every channel. One with data-direct, and one with DVB numbering. I then went into mysql and manually copied the xmltvid from the "datadirect" channel to the "dvb" channel, and deleted the datadirect channels. I also deleted channels picked up in the scan with marginal reception, since tuning to a marginal DVD channel is a landmine. This setup seemed to work well for quite a while, and I was very happy. But, after a while, my channel information started to get corrupt. I'd see channels with garbage names in the program guide. Finally, my recordings were done on the wrong channel. I'd setup a recording on channel "X", and then it would actually record channel "y" So, I just wiped my channel/tuner information and re-scanned and re-filled the database last weekend. Now my recordings seem to be working again. However, is there anything I should do differently to keep the creeping-crud from coming back into my database? I assume these bogus channels were somehow confusing myth, and bumping its own channel numbers around (meaning the channel numbers that appear in the .nuv filenames). Thanks, Drew
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