[mythtv-users] I have written a DVB-T (freeview) auto channel setup script..

[Mike Ryan]

Actually, I just came across this on the web that sounds quite similar:

http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/dvb/

Cheers

Mike

Quoting Mike Ryan <mythtv at redmar.com>:

> Hi
>
> Even if it doesn't get accepted, any chance you could post it as I'm in the
> middle of adding all mine again?
>
> Incidentally, does it tie up the channels with the xmltv id's for use with
> tv_grab_dvb? ie, does BBC1 = 4164.dvb.guide , etc
>
> Cheers
>
> Mike
>
> Quoting George Styles <george at ripnet.co.uk>:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Sorry for xpost if its not approriate.
> >
> > Following the recent re-shuffle of PIDs in the UK on Freeview, I got fed up
> > manually setting up channels.
> >
> > I have written a PHP script which uses dvbscan (part of the LinuxTV tools)
> to
> > dump out the channel list, and populate the channel tables in MythTV.
> >
> > It populates channel, dvb_channel, and dvb_pids automatically.
> >
> > At the moment, you have to change one line to indicate the starting
> frequency
> > for your local transmitter. LinuxTV is supplied with a list of transmitters
> > and their frequencies.
> >
> > It uses the ServiceID as the chanID in mythtv (as I believe these stay
> > constant)
> >
> > It also 'fixes up' the radio channels by assigning a dummy video PID from
> the
> > same MUX, so they work in MythTV.
> >
> > It outputs a SQL script, which you can pipe to mysql to do the setup.
> >
> > Can I contribute this to mythtv? i also wanted to contribute my
> auto-archive
> > script (which only works for DVB recordings) as well. Is is possible to
> have
> > partial CVS access for my tools? If not, I will throw together a web page
> > with them on.
> >
> > g
> >
>
>
>
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