[mythtv-users] 0.21 ignoring mpeg4 channels

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sat Jan 23 04:18:27 UTC 2010


On 01/22/2010 05:30 PM, Thomas wrote:
> Hi. My network have recently started to broadcast a few channels in
> mpeg4. Today I did a new channel scan (with the 'scan' command line
> tool) and created a new channels.conf. The new channels are in there
> just fine. However, when I try to set mythtv up with the new
> channels.conf, it says it ignores the mpeg4 channels as they are "data
> only (off-air?)" or something along those lines. Why is that?
>
> From what I understand, my DVB-T cards should be able to just dump the
> mpeg4 datastream to disk so my feeling is that this is mythtv related.
> Am I right? And if so, what do I need to do? Is there anything I *can* do?
>
> I'm on Ubuntu 8.04 LTE with MythTV 0.21

Use the mythtv channel scanner if you want to use channels with, er,
MythTV...

Mike


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