<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Michael T. Dean <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 06/11/2009 02:25 PM, Allen Edwards wrote:<br>
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Could the first person to successfully do this Saturday please write down what works. I have asked this before and getting, try this and if it doesn't work try this.... drives me nuts. I followed the thread referenced above<br>
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I'm assuming you mean: <a href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/264034#264034" target="_blank">http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/264034#264034</a><div class="im"><br>
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and by the time I followed all the links, I was in an analog scan howto.<br>
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Do you mean <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Frontend_Channel_Editor" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Frontend_Channel_Editor</a> ? If so, that is /not/ an analog scan howto (QAM-256 and QAM-64 are by definition digital). I did, however, add explicit mention of OTA ATSC so that people who see cable and think it doesn't apply (though the process is identical for both) know that it does apply.<div class="im">
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This is digital off the air we are talking about. Cable users do not need to re-scan.<br>
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Lots of people are going to be doing this in a couple of days so if some kind user would document if for everyone else you would make a lot of people happy.<br>
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I know /exactly/ how I'm doing my rescan... Backup DB ( <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_Backup_and_Restore" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_Backup_and_Restore</a> ) /and/ backup xmltvid's ( <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_Backup_and_Restore#Backup_xmltvid_data_.28before_doing_a_full_channel_scan.29" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_Backup_and_Restore#Backup_xmltvid_data_.28before_doing_a_full_channel_scan.29</a> ), delete all video sources ( <a href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/264034#264034" target="_blank">http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/264034#264034</a> ), create video source, connect input to most-preferred card, do a full channel scan, connect inputs to other cards in the order of preferred usage, restore xmltvids ( <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_Backup_and_Restore#Restore_xmltvids_after_a_channel_scan" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_Backup_and_Restore#Restore_xmltvids_after_a_channel_scan</a> ). Then, after 10 minutes of effort (5-7 of which are waiting for the channel scan to complete and 1 of which is waiting for the database backup (50-seconds of which is waiting for the CPU to gzip it)), I'll be back up and running as if nothing changed.<br>
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I also know that this approach works great--I've done it 10's of times and it has worked every single time.<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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Mike<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>Perfect! Thanks for saving us all a lot of trouble.</div><div><br></div><div>Allen</div><div><br></div>