[mythtv-users] recreating DVB adaptors

[Nick Morrott]

On 07/07/2009, Gareth Glaccum <gareth.glaccum at btopenworld.com> wrote:
> > From: "Nick Morrott" <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com>
> >
> > Note that with DVB-S on trunk with no mux existing information,
> > channel scanning may be a two step process. First do a tuned scan to
> > one to a good mux, and then do a scan of all existing muxes on the
> > DVB-S video source. Alternatively you could import a good
> > channels.conf file generated from a scan of Astra/Eurobird.
> >
>
>  Yes this was a pain in the ****. There are two rpms available which have
> the dvbscan package (at least for the OS which is my slave backend with the
> DVB-S, F10).
>  One of them worked, one of them didn't. I think that the one which didn't
> was called linux-dvb, the one which does work is dvb-apps. I used dvbscan to
> create a channels.conf, then imported it. I am not 100% sure that mythtv's
> checkbox of unencrypted channels only is working (it certainly is not with
> DVB-T), it tried to record virgin1 from my DVB-S, which is encrypted.

I saw the same behaviour yesterday before upgrading the box. See
http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/6670.

Nick

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