[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/06/2011 07:12 AM, Mike McMullin wrote:
>    Not quite, in the channel Editor page, for the Analog input, I've got
> channels that can only be gotten Digitally.  (sigh)  No doubt a nuke the
> capture cards and redo the rest situation.

When you share channels from one lineup across multiple video sources, 
you need to manually tell MythTV which channels belong to your analog 
video source.

So, use the mythtv-setup channel editor to delete the extra channels 
from the analog video source.  Then, add "--remove-new-channels" to your 
mythfilldatabase args setting (in mythtv-setup).

Another option (which allows MythTV to add all the new channels that 
your cable company is /so/ likely to give you for free /so/ often) is to 
leave the extra channels in the analog video source and set them to be 
not visible.  This is will generally work, but is not the way things 
were designed to be configured.  Just make sure you never let MythTV 
tune those 
channels-that-by-definition-are-not-part-of-the-video-source-even-though-they-are-still-specified-as-part-of-it, 
or Bad Things will happen (what, specifically, depends on your STB/cable 
co/capture device).

http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-24.html#ss24.2

Mike