Mike,<br><br> Sweet, it sounds like I finally found someone with a solid idea. Thanks, I'll give that a try later on. So it sounds like I messed up my database by populating it twice. I'll use the fetch method and see what happens.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/10/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael T. Dean</b> <<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.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;">
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<br><br>On 10/10/2007 10:28 AM, Josh White wrote:<br>> Thanks. I thought the same thing, but when I tried hitting "fetch..."<br>> it didn't seem to do anything.<br><br>That's because you had already created the channels using scan. Scan
<br>for channels is really for digital capture cards and for analog users<br>who don't have access to a great listings provider like Schedules<br>Direct. If you have SD support, using Fetch channels from listings<br>
provider is /much/ more functional.<br><br>If you've done a scan for channels /and/ Fetch channels from listings<br>provider, chances are you have duplicate channels in your DB, which<br>will--eventually--cause problems (
i.e. missed recordings or worse). I<br>/highly/ recommend<br><a href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/264034#264034">http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/264034#264034</a> (only<br>the "Delete all video sources" part--don't worry about deleting capture
<br>cards). This won't harm any of your recording rules or recordings or ...<br><br>> Scan for channels seems to sequentially work its way through the<br>> channels available to the tuner. Somehow, those channels are then
<br>> linked with the listing data from <a href="http://Schedulesdirect.org">Schedulesdirect.org</a><br>> <<a href="http://Schedulesdirect.org">http://Schedulesdirect.org</a>> (which seems to work, mostly for the
<br>> specific show information) in the mysql database so I know that Modern<br>> Marvels "The Colosseum" is on at 8:00pm on Wednesday night. So how<br>> does that part work, but adding the callsign (
i.e. "HISTORY" to<br>> channel 42, the History channel) does not? Are these two pieces of<br>> information handled in two different places? That seems strange to<br>> me. I've tried looking for more information on how this works in
<br>> Myth, but I haven't had much luck. Does anyone know where I can find<br>> more information on this? I'm not programmer, so I doubt I'd be able<br>> to read the source code, but this seems to be one of the key features
<br>> of MythTV (or at least, a critical function that the rest of the key<br>> features are based on), and I would hope it would be documented<br>> someplace.<br><br>I'm not sure I understand the question, but if you're asking how the
<br>channels are linked to the listings data by mythfilldatabase, it's using<br>the xmltvid--not the callsign. Callsign is a user-editable field that<br>provides a way of telling Myth that 2 channels are "substantially
<br>identical" (i.e. if received from 2 different sources, such as a digital<br>capture card and an analog capture card).<br><br>Also, if (North American) analog channels are populated "correctly"<br>(i.e. using SD/Fetch channels from listings provider), the xmltvid will
<br>be automatically put in place. So, cleaning up the existing and redoing<br>it as described in the post above will fix the issues.<br><br>> So again, I can narrow it down to either a database problem, or a<br>> problem with the source data.
<br><br>Make sure you run the optimize_mythdb.pl script to check and/or fix your<br>database before you do the Delete all...<br><br>Mike<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">
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