[mythtv-users] Mythfilldatabase question

Shirley, Mark R MarkRShirley at eaton.com
Mon Jul 7 16:54:38 EDT 2003


Ah, but I don't think I want to comment them out, since I wouldn't
be able to choose them for LiveTv watching would I?  I don't want
the wife to have to switch back and forth between mythtv output and
Dishnetwork
output.  Too confusing for her.  (non-techie)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Markey [mailto:bjm at lvcm.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 3:40 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Mythfilldatabase question
> 
> 
> Shirley, Mark R wrote:
> > I got the system configured and compiled correctly (I think)
> > And I ran mythfilldatabase last night.  It took over 12 hours 
> > to grab 8 days data.  Is this normal for a dialup connection?
> > I figured it was about 1.5 hrs per day downloaded.  That seems
> > like a lot.  Any way to shorten it?
> 
> Now that the the database is populated, it will only grab
> the next day (to catch any recent changes) and eight days
> from now. It should only take 3 hours for these two days
> from now on.
> 
> You probably don't want to grab listing for channels that
> you will never record like QVC, CSPAN, Community Access, The
> Weather Channel, etc. You can comment these out in your
> WinTv1.xmltv file. See:
> 
> http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-19.html#ss19.9
> 
> --  bjm
> 
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