[mythtv-users] Removing unwanted channels - lots of them!

Peter Bowyer peter at bowyer.org
Wed Apr 25 18:38:01 UTC 2007


On 25/04/07, Mike Dent <mcdent at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/25/07, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> > On 04/25/2007 11:06 AM, Mike Dent wrote:
> > > On 4/25/07, Ben Lancaster <lists at benlancaster.co.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > >>> I'm in the UK and using the xmltv grabber to get the channel
> > >>> listing data from Radio Times HQ. I have a uk_rt.xmltv file with
> > >>> 260 entries!
> > >>>
> > >> The mistake you made was choosing "all" when you did the initial
> > >> xmltv_rt setup, rather then selectively choose the channels available
> > >> to freeview.
> > > I assume I cannot just run mythtv-setup again and correct this?
> >
> > Actually, running mythtv-setup and using the "Delete all video sources"
> > button to remove all video sources (and it has to be "Delete all") and
> > then re-creating video sources, input connections, and channels is the
> > best approach.  Doing so will clean out everything that's not needed.
> >
> > Mike
>
> Hi Mike,
> just done that, all looked good until I ran mythfilldatabase and now
> the EPG is full
> of every channel I dont want now?
> I checked the EPG before running mythfilldatabase and it seemed ok, ie
> only the UK freeview channels were there.

They'll keep coming back if they're listed in the xmltv.conf - either
take the unwanted ones out manually, or rerun tv_grab_uk_rt
--configure and tell it which channels you want.

Peter


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