<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 8:11 AM, R. G. Newbury <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:newbury@mandamus.org">newbury@mandamus.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On 09/10/2010 12:18 AM, Bob wrote:<br>
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Seth Heckard wrote:<br>
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If I scan for channels via myth-setup, I get about 200 channels with<br>
nothing to distinguish them other than a channel number. Trying to<br>
individually go through the channels in Live TV gives about 40 that<br>
tune, but it's a frustrating process because the frontend crashes<br>
about every other channel (I guess because most are encrypted?)<br>
However, through that I found all the networks but Fox.<br>
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My process is to use the "scan" program from linux-dvb-utils. Next, I<br>
have a perl script that will record 5 to 10 seconds from every channel<br>
and determine the encryption status using ffmpeg. After that, I use<br>
mplayer to determine what channel it is. Then I create a CSV file and<br>
run one last perl script that goes into the database and configures the<br>
channel names, numbers, XML ID, etc.<br>
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I can share some of this if you are interested.<br>
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Since there is no actual 'easy' way of finding and naming channels, these scripts sound like a great step forward. Thanks for offering to share.<br>
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There is a wiki page here:<br>
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<a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Adding_Digital_Cable_Channels_%28For_ATSC/QAM_Tuner_Cards_--_USA/Canada%29" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Adding_Digital_Cable_Channels_%28For_ATSC/QAM_Tuner_Cards_--_USA/Canada%29</a><br>
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which is now quite likely out of date. It would be great if you would either add a description of your process (and the scripts) to that page, or add a link to a new page which sets out your process. (Use a similar name, or add 'revised' and a date).<br>
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Geoff<br>
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_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Wouldn't this help in some situations?</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Scte65scan">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Scte65scan</a> </div>
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