[mythtv-users] Channel scan and import fails

[Ian Barton]

> yes, the firmware is loaded (as previously said, watching with Kaffeine
> works fine, as well as having Kaffeine or "scan" do the channel scan).
>
> Actually I used /usr/share/dvb/dvb-s/Astra-19.2E resp. the following
> settings:
> freq: 12551500
> pol: vertical
> symbol rate: 22000000
> fec: 5/6
>
> For the rest I left the default settings.
>
> What I still don't get is the issue with loading / importing an existing
> channels.conf. Is there any log why it does not find any channels in it?
> Maybe it's something trivial like a missing file permission or a missing
> directory or sth like that...
>
> Greetings
>

I had a problem a while ago with channels.conf being in the wrong 
format. Unfortunately, I can't find the magic invocation ATM. Try 
running dvbscan without any options to see what output formats it supports.

Ian.