WORKAROUND (well, manual labor, the quick and dirty way)

I expect the channel scanning fails for more than me alone. My solution
was to insert the frequencies manually. My shot was to use both mythweb
and phpmyadmin. But I started setting the first channel in the mythtv-
backend-setup. At Channel-Editor, I just added a channel with the
details I could get hold of. The cable company provided me with a list
of channels and their frequencies. I just got one going.

Then I used phpmyadmin to export table 'channel' in database
'mythconverg' to a sql file. This is an editable ascii file. I used my
favorite ascii editor (vi for me, you can use yours). I searched for the
line with my channel name in it and I replicated this line for every
channel and frequency.

For 'ChanID' and 'ChanNum I used an ongoing number.

I ran xmltv as in their documentation until I got a list with channel
names and numbers. These numbers are used with their channel name in the
'xmltvid' field.

Name and CallSign are the full name and abreviation.

For the SQL file: Each line must end with a comma (,) except for the
last in the sequence, that ends with a semicolum (;)

Finally I imported the file using phpmyadmin.

Of course, I made some errors. For this I used mythweb. THerer at
.../mythweb/settings, there at 'tv -> ChannelInfo' you see the same
table as exported and imported above. Here you can update single fields
as needed. For bulk edits much faster than the mythtv-backend-setup.

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Scanning for channels hangs on channel 1 with PVR-150
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/452779
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