<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/18/07, <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="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On 11/18/2007 12:28 PM, Mike Perkins wrote:<br>> The UK problem, for which I believe someone has a forthcoming script, is that
<br>> the station IDs given when scanning digital multiplexes do not match what the RT<br>> xmltv scripts expect. Therefore, unless one is aware of it, there is no (or very<br>> little match) when mfdb is first run so you end up with two sets of channels in
<br>> the table - one set which can receive programs, and another set which can be<br>> updated by tv_grab_uk_rt. It's a pain matching the data, copying the xmltvids,<br>> and deleting the duplicates - around 100 or so entries.
<br>><br>> Yes, it's rescanning the channels that's the problem. The sources, once set up<br>> and tailored, are reasonably stable.<br><br>But, once you've fixed up XMLTV ID's once, you've got the info. Just
<br>takes a little text-editing/regexp search and replace/creative<br>SQL/whatever to get it back into the DB.<br><br>Although I will admit that Nick's approach will make things much easier<br>for everyone--new users or "veteran" users.
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<div>(as another UK user) - I find that Mythweb's channel management page very helpful for doing the XMLTV / channel match up manually. You can copy/paste the XMLTV IDs to the channels, do a renumber of the channel numbers, and delete the duplicate channels all from the html interface. It's still the best part of an hour's work - but not all afternoon anymore.
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<div>I look forward to the 'new' XMLTV solution though!</div><br> </div>