[mythtv-users] something's missing

[David Watkins]

> The output will show you what channels are detected and you should be able
> to match that with your local environment re missing/extra channels.
> Then you can test a channel, by tuning to it and capturing output from
> /dev/video (or /dev/dvb/frontend...whatever) using cat to a file.
> And you then can play that file using mplayer.
> (Instructions on the page given above).
>
>
> THEN, and ONLY THEN can you be assured that scanning in mythtv will actually
> work.


I believe the OP said they were looking at capturing analogue broadcasts.

I seem to recall from my PVR350 days that Mythtv doesn't have an
analogue channel scanner (although that may have changed now).

I tuned my PVR350 in Mythtv by selecting  European broadcast
frequencies and manually entering the channel frequencies, which I
found by looking at the channel tuning of my television.  The
"frequency" I used was the TV tuning slot number between 1 and 99.