[mythtv-users] multiple identical channel numbers?

[Isaac Richards]

On Monday 02 June 2003 02:56 am, Chris Petersen wrote:
> during my rewrite of mythweb, I started noticing some interesting
> discrepancies in my database.  I then checked the Cable.xmltv file and
> noticed that I have a number of channels listed with the same number
> (eg. channel 57 is both SHOP and TNN).  As far as I can tell, there is
> no easy way to tell them apart.
>
> Does myth have anything to help locate duplicate channels?  It really
> behaves weirdly in this instance...

Ah, no, it doesn't.  I went through quite a long time ago and removed those 
dupes from my channel lineup -- they're really channels that 'switch' at like 
3 am or whatnot to the more ad-based one, from what I can tell.  There's 
nothing indicating this in the xmltv data, though.

Isaac