[mythtv-users] Channel scan does not work

[OCG Technical Support]

Take a look for mythscanner - another alternative to myth's built in
scanner....(Very nice tool)

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Junev
Sent: November 21, 2008 10:01 AM
To: Ian Clark; Myth TV Users List
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Channel scan does not work

Friday, November 21, 2008, 5:40:42 PM, you wrote:

> 2008/11/21 Andrew Junev <a-j at a-j.ru>

>> The proper command (at least for my Fedora system) is:
>>
>> taskset -c 0 mythtvsetup
>>


> Oooh, thanks for that too. I've been having this issue with '.21-fixes'
too.
> Will have to try that myself.

Welcome! :)


>>
>> This way channel scan worked as usual, at first. But then, while
>> scanning a transponder with lots of channels (radio stations), my
>> mythtvsetup crashed with the same error again.
>>

> Have you tried running it again? I often find just running setup again and
> doing the same thing works second time round. (I assume the tuner is
getting
> left in some more agreeable state after the first crash, but that's a
> guess.)

I didn't try it for the second time, as all the scanned channels
already got to the database, despite the crash.
And this crash happened on one transponder only, other transponders
were scanned without any problems.

So I'm very happy with the overall result! :)


--
Best regards,
 Andrew

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