Ok, here's the latest.<br>I installed dvb-apps and was able to scan channels.<br>I imported the file to mythtv but no dice... zero signal, zero channels<br><br>Here are the steps...<br>So closer but not quite there yet...
<br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>yum installed dvb-apps<br>
<br>
cd /usr/share/dvb-apps/atsc<br>
<br>
scandvb -A 2 us-Cable-Standard-center-frequencies-QAM256 <br>
<br>-partial see full dump-<br>(see the rest below)<br>
<br>World:591000000:QAM_256:2048:2049:1<br>
Kids:591000000:QAM_256:2112:2113:2<br>
Create:591000000:QAM_256:2176:2177:3<br>
WCVB-DT:597000000:QAM_256:1984:1985:1<br>
WJAR-DT:597000000:QAM_256:2048:2049:2<br>
WJAR-WX:597000000:QAM_256:2112:2113:4<br>
WNAC HDTV:603000000:QAM_256:2048:2049:1<br>
WBZ-DT:603000000:QAM_256:1984:1985:2<br>
<br>
I imported the channels.conf file but still mythtv wouldn't see any channels<br>
<br>zero signal... period :(<br><br>
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<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Andrew Burgess</b> <<a href="mailto:aab@cichlid.com">aab@cichlid.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
>>>scan and output a channels.conf file<br><br>>I yum installed dvb-apps but i'm not sure of the tzap szap, etc process...<br>>can you give me a hand with the syntax?<br><br>This is what I just did to find the comcast digital channels
<br>in Santa Cruz CA:<br><br>#!/bin/sh<br># scan for channels using dvb-apps<br>for f in /usr/share/dvb-apps/atsc/*; do<br> echo; echo $f; echo<br> scandvb $f | tee ~/scandvb/$(basename $f).out;<br>done<br><br>Adjust the path for where your rpm put the files.
<br><br>This resulted in:<br><br>-rw-r--r-- 1 aab devel 0 Aug 21 11:07 us-ATSC-center-frequencies-8VSB.out<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 aab devel 0 Aug 21 11:12 us-Cable-EIA-542-HRC-center-frequencies-QAM256.out<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 aab devel
1.9k Aug 21 11:29 us-Cable-EIA-542-IRC-center_frequencies-QAM256.out<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 aab devel 0 Aug 21 11:29 us-Cable-HRC-center-frequencies-QAM256.out<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 aab devel 1.9k Aug 21 11:47 us-Cable-IRC-center-frequencies-QAM256.out
<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 aab devel 2.1k Aug 21 12:00 us-Cable-Standard-center-frequencies-QAM256.out<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 aab devel 0 Aug 21 12:00 us-CA-SF-Bay-Area.out<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 aab devel 0 Aug 21 12:01 us-ID-Boise.out<br>
-rw-r--r-- 1 aab devel 0 Aug 21 12:02 us-MA-Boston.out<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 aab devel 0 Aug 21 12:02 us-MI-Lansing.out<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 aab devel 0 Aug 21 12:03 us-NTSC-center-frequencies-8VSB.out<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 aab devel
1.2k Aug 21 12:11 us-NY-TWC-NYC.out<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 aab devel 0 Aug 21 12:11 us-PA-Philadelphia.out<br><br>Since I'm not near NYC I concated all the other files:<br><br>cat us-Cable* | sort | uniq > us.out<br><br>
Then I ran mythtv-setup and scanned using us.out as my channels files<br><br>Then I watched them and figured out which channel it was<br>and copied the various fields (callsign, channel, etc) from<br>the channels from DataDirect.
<br><br>HTH<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">
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