[mythtv-users] Magical Reappearing Channels

[Tom Hughes]

In message <200504011506.20601.stuart at tase.co.uk>
        Stuart Morgan <stuart at tase.co.uk> wrote:

> Several times now I have deleted unwanted channels from the database as well 
> as all programs relating to them. A couple of days later they magically 
> reappear and it is starting to drive me mad!
>
> I found two or three other people complaining of the same thing via google but 
> none of the suggestions seemed to help: There are no programs for these 
> chanids in the database, my xmltv file does not contain the IDs for these 
> channels and the timing of Mythfilldatabase does not seem to correlate to 
> their appearance.
>
> I'm in the UK, using a DVB-T card and XMLTV (not the broadcast EPG). I'm 
> running a two/three week old CVS version of Myth. Which channels appear 
> varies, but the last time it was CBeebies, 701, 702, 703 (BBCi channels). 
> Previously I've had the various shopping channels, QVC, BidUP etc refuse to 
> die.

There's no mystery really - part of the new DVB auto-tuning code takes
care of adding new channels as they appear. The result is that if you
delete a channel then the next time Myth sees it (it the next time you
tune to another channel on the same multiplex) then it will get added
back again.

The solution is not to delete them, but just to set the hidden flag
instead if you really don't want to see them.

Tom

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