[mythtv-users] Guidance for phase 9

[Tom Dexter]

On 8/16/19, Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 14:52:39 -0400, you wrote:
>
>>On 8/15/19, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Aug 15, 2019, 1:10 PM Tom Dexter, <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>> I've attached that perl script here. Note that it has pretty thorough
>>>> help using -h or --help. A few things to note:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Obviously this is only intended for U.S. ATSC.
>>>>
>>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>
>>> I guess for completeness sake, #1 should state it's good for North
>>> American
>>> ATSC, as Canada is undergoing the repack too.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the script.
>>>
>>You're quite welcome!
>>
>>Note that the validation that script does against the frequencies (see
>>the get_us_atsc_frequencies function) was originally based on a file
>>on my backend at the path
>>/usr/share/dvb/atsc/us-ATSC-center-frequencies-8VSB.
>>
>>I'm a bit at my wits end on that however, as I no longer have that
>>file. I'm running Gentoo, and I *think* that file was part of the
>>media-tv/linuxtv-dvb-apps package...at least I think so. That got
>>upgraded in March too...possibly the new version doesn't have that(?).
>>
>>Wow does that throw me off. Does anyone have any idea what usually
>>provides that file?
>>
>>Tom
>
> In Ubuntu, the us-ATSC-center-frequencies-8VSB file comes from the
> dtv-scan-tables package, and I also have another copy that comes from
> my tvheadend package:
>
> /usr/share/tvheadend/data/dvb-scan/atsc/us-ATSC-center-frequencies-8VSB

Wow...thanks for pointing that out. It turns out that I actually
already have the gentoo package media-tv/dtv-scan-tables installed,
and it has those same files though in different paths. Thanks!

Tom