[mythtv-users] Still tearing my hair out with Myth 0.21 on Fedora 11

[Mike Perkins]

Chris Jones wrote:
> I am still having huge problems with MythTV 0.21 on Fedora 11. I have now
> reinstalled Myth (again), and reinstalled my Hauppage HVR1300  as a DVB DTV
> capture card (v3.x). I have set up a video source called Freeview using the
> UK Radio Times xmltv grabber using Europe-west frequency table. Then I ran
> the script given me by Nick Morrott some days ago which grabs the xml data
> from tv_grab_uk_rt and puts it into a file I have called freeview.xmltv.
> Then I run mythfilldatabase using -file 1 ~/freeview.xmltv. All this works
> fine. I then have to manually edit the channel table with three selected
> channel numbers for BBC1 BBC2 and BBC News using the generally accepted
> numbers (1, 2, and 80).
> 
>  
> 
> Then when I try to set up a program record, on every occasion it errors -
> the latest occurrence generated the following log output:-
> 
>  
> 
> Starting up as the master server.
> 
> 2009-10-05 21:35:03.953 New DB connection, total: 3
> 
> 2009-10-05 21:35:03.956 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
> localhost
> 
> 2009-10-05 21:35:03.962 DVBChan(1:0) Error: SetChannelByString(Please add):
> CheckChannel failed.
> 
>                                                 Please verify the channel in
> the 'mythtv-setup' Channel Editor.
> 
> 2009-10-05 21:35:03.965 DVBChan(1:0) Error: SetChannelByString(2): Failed to
> initialize multiplex options
> 
> 2009-10-05 21:35:03.966 ChannelBase(1) Error: Setting start channel 'Please
> add' failed, 
> 
>                                                 and we failed to find any
> suitible channels on any input.
> 
> 2009-10-05 21:35:03.981 New DB scheduler connection
> 
> 2009-10-05 21:35:03.983 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
> localhost
> 
> 2009-10-05 21:35:04.002 MediaServer:: Loopback address specified -
> 127.0.0.1. Disabling UPnP
> 
> 2009-10-05 21:35:04.005 Main::Registering HttpStatus Extension
> 
> 2009-10-05 21:35:04.007 mythbackend version: 0.21.20080304-1 www.mythtv.org
> 
> 2009-10-05 21:35:04.008 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general
> 
> 2009-10-05 21:35:04.012 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space:
> 1.0 GB w/freq: 15 min
> 
> 2009-10-05 21:35:06.990 Reschedule requested for id -1.
> 
> 2009-10-05 21:35:07.044 Scheduled 1 items in 0.1 = 0.04 match + 0.01 place
> 
> 2009-10-05 21:35:07.047 Seem to be woken up by USER
> 
> 2009-10-05 21:35:32.656 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
> 
> 2009-10-05 21:35:32.658 adding: legolas.mollcons.local as a client (events:
> 0)
> 
> 2009-10-05 21:35:32.659 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
> 
> 2009-10-05 21:35:32.659 adding: legolas.mollcons.local as a client (events:
> 1)
> 
> 2009-10-05 21:36:07.313 Reschedule requested for id 5.
> 
> 2009-10-05 21:36:07.354 Scheduled 2 items in 0.0 = 0.01 match + 0.03 place
> 
> 2009-10-05 21:36:23.993 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space:
> 1.0 GB w/freq: 15 min
> 
> 2009-10-05 21:37:29.907 Reschedule requested for id 6.
> 
> 2009-10-05 21:37:29.944 Scheduled 3 items in 0.0 = 0.01 match + 0.03 place
> 
> 2009-10-05 21:38:05.095 Reschedule requested for id 4.
> 
> 2009-10-05 21:38:05.173 Scheduled 2 items in 0.1 = 0.03 match + 0.05 place
> 
>  
> 
> The problem starts with the third line down where it complains about
> CheckChannel failing, and then in the following line it cannot initialise
> the multiplex options. What causes this? I have googled for about  2 hours
> now and cannot find ANYTHING remotely sensible that I should be doing to
> correct this error.
> 
You have connected your Freeview source to your tuner(s)?

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Mike Perkins