[mythtv-users] Channel scan and import fails

[Ian Barton]

On 15/10/10 11:33, Ian Barton wrote:
>
>
>> 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.
>

Found it:

scan -a0 -o zap /usr/share/dvb/dvb-t/uk-WinterHill > channels.conf

The -o zap is the important bit. It used to work without it but either 
Myth or scan changed its default format for channales.conf.

Ian.