On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 7:43 AM, Brian J. Murrell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian@interlinx.bc.ca">brian@interlinx.bc.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
So, a few new channels have shown up on our clearqam cable service here.<br>
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I am loathed to go through the rigmarole of doing a whole new channel<br>
scan though (has that gotten any easier with 0.25/trunk?).<br>
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If on my television the channel shows up as "48-774" is there any way I<br>
can manually add that channel through the mythtv-setup channel editor?<br>
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In the channel editor, when I choose to add a new channel, the first two<br>
pages are pretty straightforward. It's the third page that I stumps me.<br>
What do I enter in the "Frequency or Channel" box? Will "48-774"<br>
actually work there?<br>
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Cheers,<br>
<font color="#888888">b.<br></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>No. But I don't blame you for not wanting to go through another channel scan. What I do in this situation is create an mplayer-compliant channels.conf file containing only the new channels. See here:</div>
<div><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Adding_Digital_Cable_Channels_(For_ATSC/QAM_Tuner_Cards_--_USA/Canada)#Scanning_for_channels">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Adding_Digital_Cable_Channels_(For_ATSC/QAM_Tuner_Cards_--_USA/Canada)#Scanning_for_channels</a> </div>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></div>Then, once you have a channels.conf with only the new channels, import that through the MythTV channel scanner. You can then go back and fine tune the database by hand as necessary.