On 1/30/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dylan R. Semler</b> <<a href="mailto:dsemler@macalester.edu">dsemler@macalester.edu</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I recently used an ad-hoc and ugly channel scanning method that I came<br>up with that found 60 digital channels, most of which were not HD. When<br>I use mythtv's scanning tool, it only finds about 7, all of which are<br>
HD. The other digital channels are of much better quality than my<br>analog feed so I was wondering if there was a standard way to import a<br>large amount of channels into the database. I've made a channels.conf<br>file and formatted it with all of the channels that I want to import.
<br><br>I'm a bit doubtful that there is a way to do this automatically as I<br>can't even seem to find a way to add a single digital channel. In<br>mythtv-setup there is an option to add a channel, but this seems to only
<br>work for analog channels where there is only one channel/frequency (i.e.<br>I found no where to add info about the different subchannels of the<br>frequency). I've seen ways to add channels through mysql (i believe)<br>
but I know nothing about mysql and it looked very tedious if I was going<br>to have to do that for all 53 channels that myth didn't find.<br><br>And before you ask, I did uncheck the "free to air channels only" box in
<br>the mythtv-setup before the scan.<br><br>Dylan</blockquote></div><br>Wiki entry of Jason Beck's guide-<br><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Adding_QAM_Channels_For_HDTV_Tuner_Cards">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Adding_QAM_Channels_For_HDTV_Tuner_Cards
</a><br><br>-- <br>Steve