[mythtv-users] Not getting all channels!

[Harry Devine]

Phil Bridges wrote:
> On 10/23/07, Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net> wrote:
>   
>> Phil Bridges wrote:
>>     
>>> On 10/23/07, Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>>  Phil Bridges wrote:
>>>>  On 10/23/07, Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  Phil Bridges wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  On 10/22/07, Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  Marc wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  Usually not.. The encrypted channels are usually encrypted over the
>>>> firewire
>>>> port too.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  I'm still pulling my hair out over this. I'm only getting 50 of my 320
>>>> channels to be tuned. I ran the scan utility that was included with the
>>>> dvb-apps tools, and used the
>>>> US-Cable-Standard-center-frequencies-QAM256
>>>> file with it. I put the output into the attached file. It is very
>>>> similar to the output shown at
>>>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Working_QAM_cable_layout,
>>>> but my
>>>> area isn't listed. Can I assume from the output that I'm getting all
>>>> channels, and that I have to tweak Myth to know about them based on the
>>>> scanned values (rather than the current "17#0", etc.)?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Harry
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  You'll need to follow the directions here:
>>>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB_search and here:
>>>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Adding_QAM_Channels_For_HDTV_Tuner_Cards
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  I'll try them again, but the last time I tried to follow those
>>>> directions, it didn't work. The scripts that are on those pages don't
>>>> work at all. Maybe the scripts are geared towards another distro? I'm
>>>> using FC6 via MythDora 4. There isn't any contact information on those
>>>> pages either, so I can't contact the author and get help on the scripts.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Harry
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  What do the scripts do when you try to execute them? In the worst
>>>> case, you should be able to go into the channel editor in
>>>> mythtv-setup, view the channels, and assign XMLTV IDs as appropriate.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  I just got home and tried running that script.  I ran fixnames.sh (shown in
>>>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB_search) and it
>>>> repeatedly prints out the following:  "./fixnames.sh: line 8: bc: command
>>>> not found".  I created that script at /root/.mplayer/ and ran it on a
>>>> channels.conf that I had there (from the scan utility; I copied the scan
>>>> output text file over as channels.conf, stripping out the non-QAM
>>>> information).  I never bothered to type up the second script on that site
>>>> (scan.sh) since the first one didn't work.
>>>>
>>>>  Any ideas?
>>>>  Harry
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> What happens if you just do a channel scan in mythtv-setup and then
>>> use those channels in the channel editor?
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Here's a snippet of my channel table from my database.  This is what
>> mythtv-setup shows me (I'm showing them in 2 rows for readability):
>> _*chanid   channum   freqid   sourceid   callsign
>> name   icon   finetune   videofilters   xmltvid   recpriority
>> contrast   brightness   color   hue   tvformat
>> *_1170     17#0         17         1            UNKNOWN17#0
>>                0                                                0
>>      32768      32768     32768  32768 Default
>> _*commfree    visible    outputfilters    useonairguide    mplexid
>> serviceid    atscsrcid    tmoffset   atsc_major_chan   atsc_minor_chan*_
>>     0                  1                                           0
>>                   1               1              NULL             0
>>                0                         0
>>
>> Thanks alot for the help!
>> Harry
>>
>>
>>     
> Did you get this from scanning for the channels in mythtv-setup?  Have
> you tried tuning those channels in the channel editor and assigning
> XMLTV IDs to them?
>
>   
Yep, I got that from scanning from mythtv-setup.  I know that I can get 
the XMLTVID from the tooltip in my SD lineup, but what channel do I tune 
to?  I've been tuning to 17#0, etc., then running into the other room to 
find the matching channel, and putting the right information into the 
channel editor.  Like I've said in other posts, I can only tune 50 of my 
328 scanned channels.  The rest of them show either a blank screen, or a 
message saying "You should've gotten a lock by now".

Thanks,
Harry