On 5/25/05, Andrew Gallatin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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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Hmmm, interesting problem.
I setup myth with dvb channels a few weeks ago using the exact method
you described.
Haven't seen any corruption yet, but it hasn't been very long
Dave
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