[mythtv-users] DVB card not *quite* working

John Pullan john.pullan at gmail.com
Thu May 19 09:42:30 UTC 2005


On 19/05/05, Uwe Schmidt <uwe.uwe at gmx.de> wrote:
> Piers,
> 
> > 2005-05-16 14:56:03.579 DVB#0 DVB Signal Monitor Starting
> > 2005-05-16 14:56:03.580 DVB#0 ERROR - Unable to find channel
> > in database.
> > 2005-05-16 14:56:03.584 DVB#0 ERROR - Failed to get channel
> > options for
> > channel 1.
> ...
> > Any ideas of what I could be doing wrong...?
> >
> yes. This seems to me as you entered "1" as the starting channel within the
> "Input Connections" (afair) menu for this connection (card). But, for me
> (DVB-S), the channel scanning results in a wild variety of channel numbers
> and they do _not_ start at "1".
> So, are you sure a channel with the number "1" does exist ?
> If not, enter a number of an (after the DVB-scan) existing channel within
> mythtv-setup.
> 

I'd be a little bit surprised if it doesn't exist, the scan should
have used the "Logical Channel Number" code to assign "1" to BBC1.
Worth checking though. (I think Piers did say he was using DVB-T)

The only other thing I can think of is that mythfilldb has messed
things up for you. I'd be tempted to clear stufff down, empty the DB
tables etc and rescan.

-- 
John


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