[mythtv-users] pchdtv 3000 and channels.conf

Steve Adeff adeffs at gmail.com
Sat Dec 31 17:22:34 EST 2005


On Saturday 31 December 2005 17:14, Michael Freeman wrote:
> i know that i can always fall back to using phpMyAdmin to just put the
> damn info in the database, but i'd rather figure out why mythsetup is
> just plain not happy.
>
> see http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/109 as an explanation of what
> i'm trying to enable.
>
> On 12/31/05, Michael Haan <michael.haan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 12/31/05, Michael Freeman <mythtv at mlfreeman.org> wrote:
> > > I have a generic channels.conf i got from
> >
> > http://www.digitalregime.com/patches/channels.conf-qam-correct
> >
> > > My issue is getting the bleeping scan wizard to show the "Import
> > > channels.conf" option like all indications say it should for
> > > ATSC cards (which is what it's detecting my pcHDTV 3000 as).
> > >
> > > Using dvb-atsc-tools from
> >
> > http://www.pchdtv.com/downloads.html, I was
> >
> > > able to find that channel 104 was one of my local stations (by
> > > capturing a short clip from it).
> > >
> > > I just want to import the channels.conf into mythtv (and i'll then use
> > > C104 as a starting point to figure out what else I can get).
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> >
> >  That's not exactly how I did it.  It was much more manual.


never was able to get myth's scanning to work for the pcHDTV HD3000 card, I 
just created the db entries by hand from the channels.conf file, works like a 
charm. Of course, at some point it would be nice for Myth to actually 
properly scan with the HD3000...

-- 
Steve


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