[mythtv-users] Question about channel names in the frontend

[Ryan Steffes]

On 6/29/06, valerio.mariani at hispeed.ch <valerio.mariani at hispeed.ch> wrote:
>
> Good morning everyone!
>
> I just joined the list and I have three questions for the more knowledge
> members. I will post them in two separate emails, so people can read only
> the topics they choose and answer!
>
> I have a working installation of mythtv that is working fine and I am
> happy with that. I have an AMD 3000+ machine with Hauppauge PVR 350 card
> (ivtv drivers).
> I am running ivtv 6.3 and mythtv 0.19. I am watching tv on my computer
> display (no tv-out used)
>
> This is the third question:
>
> I cannot grab listing for my country because tv_grab_ch is not working
> anymore. I am ok with that, but I would like the channel names to appear on
> my screen when I change channel with the frontend. I entered all the channel
> names manually in the channel editor of mythtv-setup However, when I launch
> the frontend and change channel, all the channels'names are set to unknwown.
> Could you please tell me if I am doing something wrong?
>
> Thankyou in advance for your answer! Please feel free to be technical, I
> want to learn!
>
>     Valerio



Channels have two seperate descriptive fields, the actual name (Comedy
Central) and the call sign (COMEDY).  Are you sure you changed the correct
one?  If you use MythWeb, their channel configuration layout makes it fairly
easy to see which one you changed.
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