Hiya and thanks for the reply!<br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 May 2011 15:39, Mike Perkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk">mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk</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 19/05/11 14:17, Fluf wrote:<br>
><br>
> I seem to be banging my head against a Myth brick wall.<br>
</div>> Easy huh?<br>
<div class="im">><br>
> All I want to do is ... Tell it the 7 good freqs. Scan the 7 good freqs. Use<br>
> all of the good program feeds from the 7 good freqs. IE. Have 2 x Film4 both<br>
> pointing at Film4. One from each mux. Yet this seems impossible using<br>
> mythtv-setup and I can't begin to fathom what the database should look like<br>
> for that configuration.<br>
><br>
> So. VDR? Freevo? Or use dvblast or some other external streamer to Myth that<br>
> I can actually control? Because I'm about to give up on Mythtv's tuner<br>
> entirely as a joke.<br>
><br>
</div>Nope. If you have 7 then you're doing something wrong, *six* multiplexes covers<br>
every need until 2012. (In fact, five are in use in most places as they shuffle<br>
things round to reserve one for HD TV.)<br>
<br>
Go to this website: <a href="Http://www.ukfree.tv/" target="_blank">Http://www.ukfree.tv/</a><br>
<br>
On the right hand side, put in your postcode. That will bring up a list of<br>
transmitters you should be able to receive. In practice, you might be able to<br>
receive more, but they will be weaker than those shown.<br>
<br>
Now click on the one your aerial points at[1], and you should get a list of the<br>
multiplexes, channels served and frequencies. NOTE ALL DOWN. This is your master<br>
list for the future.<br>
<br>
Next step, in mythtv-setup, Delete All Sources. This should get rid of the<br>
thousands of entries you have in the database. *Delete All* is the only way to<br>
clear down the table.<br>
<br>
Next step, manually enter each new transport (ie multiplex) into the transport<br>
editor and do a Single Scan. When it comes up with the popup box at the end,<br>
*always* answer ignore to the question, this refers to the results of any<br>
previous scans you have already done.<br>
<br>
You really don't need to have multiple instances of each channel. Amongst other<br>
things, this will just complicate scheduling. Myth is smart enough to do the<br>
right thing.<br>
<br>
[1] The highlighted one will be the strongest, but like me you might be the<br>
wrong side of a factory/hill/tower block...<br>
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</font></blockquote></div><br>Hiya and thanks for the reply!<br><br>Sadly it's 7 I have that are known to work. I can't help being in an overlap zone! And may as well use all that work.<br>
To people going HUH?<br>
In the UK, when DVB terrestrial was being rolled out, our minister of that sort of stuff was on holiday.<br>
So on one frequency (say 842), I might have Film4 and BBC1 amongst the
mix of channels. Great for recording both if they overlap. But on 794, I
might have Film4 and Dave, but no BBC1. So on the night Dave overlaps
with that good film, I want to be using 794. Other channels I only get
one of, so I'm tied to that set of channels for those recordings +
overlaps, but I still need that frequency to get those one or two extra
channels.<br>
I don't think any of the 7 good strength frequencies I get contain an exact copy of any of the others!!! I'll check though! O.o<br><br>I've been to <a href="http://www.ukfree.tv">www.ukfree.tv</a> and it does provide a pretty good list, the 7 out of 11 I've narrowed it down to is from using a standard freeview set top box from the same aerial, so I know the 4 bad really are bad, and the 7 good really are good.<br>
<br>I'll try the delete all sources!!! Fantastic tip ta!!!<br><br>And it's not a directional aerial. Omnidirectional? Seems to work though! See above to why I do want the same channel on different mux's.<br><br>
Or am I missing how Myth does this entirely? Does it only care about the mux frequency and figure out the channels when it gets there? ... Erm .. I sort of doubt it. It needs to know the callsigns for each channel on every mux it's on doesn't it?<br>