[mythtv-users] pchdtv 3000 and channels.conf

Adam Gianola devils.taco at gmail.com
Mon Jan 2 13:18:03 EST 2006


here's a post I've found useful on this topic:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/150073


On 1/1/06, Michael Freeman <mythtv at mlfreeman.org> wrote:
>
> what database tables and columns would i feed the contents of
> http://www.digitalregime.com/patches/channels.conf-qam-correct into?
>
> it looks like the : is the field separator.
>
> On 12/31/05, Michael Freeman <mlfreeman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > i don't even care about scanning.  i just want to know why the import
> > option isn't there for my atsc card, even though the source code says
> > such an option should be showing up.
> >
> > On 12/31/05, Steve Adeff <adeffs at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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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