[mythtv-users] Growing channel list

[Robin Gilks]

>
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:00:05 +1300 (NZDT)
> Robin Gilks wrote:
>
>> Greetings
>>
>> Had a bit of a surprise when I looked at the mythweb channel editor...
>>
>> It looks like every time I run mythfilldatabase I get an extra bunch of
>> channels added. Is this because I haven't bothered adding a xmltv
>> reference on some channels as I don't subscribe to them but my xmltv
>> list
>> has them? although I'm seeing channels that I have got set up correctly
>> being duplicated as well.
>>
>> I think I'm up to about 800 extra (duplicated) channels now :-((
>>
>> Running SVN as follows:
>> URL: http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/trunk/mythtv
>> Repository UUID: 7dbf422c-18fa-0310-86e9-fd20926502f2
>> Revision: 7535
>>
>> xmltv data is fed manually using
>> /usr/local/bin/mythfilldatabase --file 1 -1 /tmp/epg/latest.xml
>> /usr/local/bin/mythfilldatabase --file 2 -1 /tmp/epg/latest.xml
>>
>> to feed my two video sources
>
> Robin, where are the latest.xml listings coming from. Using mr.geek.nz I
> get some strange channels added (although I don't think I am up to 800
> yet!)
>


I lied - I've just dumped the mytheb channel page of 20990 lines and at 17
lines per channel (with headers etc) I get 1246 channels where I should
only have about 30.

These channels have been allocated incrementing callsigns, on video source
1 they start at 1000 and for source 2 they start at 2000 (which seems
normal). I'm now up to 1797 and 2554 (which isn't).

The xml data is from mr.geek and is updating existing channels OK, its
just creating all these extra ones. Guess I'll have to ty running
mythfilldatabase manually so I can post the messages it generates. I can
then sed/awk the rubbish out of the xml file.

Cheers

-- 
Robin Gilks