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;">
Steven Adeff wrote:<br><br>> On 1/30/06, *Dylan R. Semler* <<a href="mailto:dsemler@macalester.edu">dsemler@macalester.edu</a><br>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:dsemler@macalester.edu">dsemler@macalester.edu</a>>> wrote:
<br>><br>> 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<br>> 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<br>> to only<br>> work for analog channels where there is only one channel/frequency<br>> (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<br>> 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"<br>> box in<br>> the mythtv-setup before the scan.<br>><br>> Dylan<br>><br>><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>> <<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<br><br>Thanks for the link. One minor thing. The wiki page only talks about<br>modifying existing channels in the mysql database. Since myth only
<br>found 7 HD channels and I need a total of 60, I will have to add my own<br>entries into the channel table. I can figure out what most of the<br>fields should be but I don't know what to put for two of them. For the<br>
chanid, can I just use any number that's not used for another channel or<br>does this need to correspond to something in some other table or<br>somewhere else? Also, what should be put for the atscsrcid entries?<br><br></blockquote>
</div><br>I have to do the same, create my own channel tables, Myth finds none of my channels, so I actually have to create all the table information by hand.<br><br>chanid is, on my system, a 4 digit number, the first is the sourceid, the next three are the actual channel number. I'm using QAM via my cable, so I just use the channel the cable company uses.
<br>atscsrcid seems random to me, I don't know how it normally gets populated or if its used for anything.<br><br>-- <br>Steve<br>