[mythtv] Why MythTV didn't handle the UK Freeview lineup change

Nick Morrott knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Sun Jul 26 17:31:21 UTC 2009


On 26/07/2009, John Barberio <barberio at lineone.net> wrote:
> Stuart Morgan wrote:
>
> > On Sunday 26 Jul 2009 17:37:27 John Barberio wrote:
> > > The problem here is that on MythTV, a rescan didn't work.
> > >
> > > Deleting the channel, and doing a rescan didn't work.
> > >
> > > Deleting all the channels, and doing a rescan didn't work.
> > >
> > > The only way to get 'Virgin 1' and 'Virgin +1' in the right channels
> > > was to delete all channels, force a database sync by running
> > > mythfilldatabase from the command line, and then do a rescan.
> >
> > See this is the problem, it just does not work that way. Mythfilldatabase
> has
> > nothing to do with scanning or 'database syncs' as you call it. You're
> > mistaken but won't accept that this is the case. Deleting channels would
> have
> > worked, it immediately removes the channels from the database.
> >
> > I don't know how to explain the behaviour you report above but to suggest
> user
> > error.
> >
>
>  And yet, this was the behaviour I saw.

John,

Any chance you could configure your mail client to respect and use the
"In-Reply-To" field, rather than starting 5 (and counting) separate
threads for the same subject? It would help to keep the thread
organised.

Cheers,
Nick

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