[mythtv-users] Mythfilldatabase and duplicate channels - UK

Paul Woodward paul.woodward at gmail.com
Wed May 11 11:16:24 UTC 2005


I you are using DVB, you might want to use the DVB data grabber!

On 5/10/05, Julian Edwards <myth at julian-edwards.com> wrote: 
> 
> stan at stanandliz.net wrote:
> 
> >Hi
> >
> >I am in the UK in London. I am using xmltv to grab program info via
> >mythfilldatabase.
> >
> >However, when I do this, my EPG and Mythweb show more than one entry for
> >BBC One, ITV etc.
> >
> >In other words, there is more than one channel ID for these duplicate
> >channels and mythfilldatabase is treating them as different channels.
> >
> >I'd like to know how to stop MythTV from importing these channels -
> >running "mythfilldatabase --help" does not come up with anything useful
> >and running "mythfilldatabase --manual" does not give me the option of
> >excluding a channel!
> >
> >
> Are you using DVB? You need to set the xmltv ID manually in mysql for
> the scanned channels, otherwise mythfilldatabase creates new ones.
> 
> I think we need some sort of way of automatically converting DVB channel
> names to xmltv IDs for those not using EIT programme data.
> 
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