[mythtv-users] Problem populating mythtv with channel information (missing PIDS)

R. Geoffrey Newbury newbury at mandamus.org
Tue Jan 3 18:49:11 UTC 2006


On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 12:46:55 -0700, LJ Wilkinson wrote:

>I apologize for asking a question that I know has been asked before,
<big snip>
>7. Get back into mythtv-setup. Do a full channel scan. The 
>mythconverge.dtv_multiplex table is now populated with about 10 rows. 
>The mplexid, serviceid, atscsrcid columns are all null in the channel table
>8. When I start the mythbackend and then mythfrontend, I'm getting 
>errors about PIDS not existing.

><snip>4. When I start the mythbackend and then the mythfrontend and watch 
>livetv, I get the following output from mythbackend:
>
>[mythtv at mythtv dvbtraffic]$ mythbackend

>2006-01-02 12:07:52.032 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
>2006-01-02 12:07:52.085 DVB#0 Recorder: Card opened successfully (using 
>TS mode).
>2006-01-02 12:07:52.087 DVB#0 ERROR - No PIDS set, please correct your 
>channel setup.
>2006-01-02 12:07:53.092 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
>
>The various info/tables follow:
>My row from channels.conf:
>KOB-DT:545000000:8VSB:49:52:3


The last three numbers are the videoID, audioID and PID for the channel.
The PID is 'serviceID' in the channel table.

Try:  'update channel set serviceid='3' where chanid='1004';

>My channel row:
>mysql> select * from channel\G
>*************************** 1. row ***************************
>chanid: 1004
>channum: 41
>freqid: 545000000
<snip>
>mplexid: 7
>serviceid: 1
>atscsrcid: NULL

There is more info in the thread "Sweet PC HD3000... " a few messages up.
Read the whole thing at gossamerthreads, with all of the links.

Geoff




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