<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Per Jessen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:per@computer.org" target="_blank">per@computer.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="">Karl Newman wrote:<br>
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> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Per Jessen <<a href="mailto:per@computer.org">per@computer.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> There's plenty of unnecessary channels, thousands. I could delete some,<br>
>> but they'll come right back on the next channel scan :-(<br>
>><br>
> Thousands seems like a lot more than the "hundreds" of channels that<br>
> probably most MythTV users have.<br>
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</span>Anyone with a satellite dish will have something on that order I suspect.<br>
My old Nokia 9902, the predecessor recorder, had about 3500 channels since<br>
2001.<br>
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> If you mark them as invisible instead of deleting them, does that survive<br>
> a channel rescan? I don't know if that would help the scheduler run<br>
> faster, but I do know that invisible channels<br>
> are excluded from scheduling, so it's possible it could help.<br>
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</span>I have not experimented with invisible/deleting channels, but I suspect the<br>
next scan will obliterate any changes I do. Editing thousands of channels<br>
using the GUI is also not something I'd look forward to :-)<br>
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/Per<br></div></div></blockquote><div> </div></div>One UK user wrote a nice script for managing channels through a scan, which would probably help in your situation. Check it out here: <a href="http://lists.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2012-August/338243.html">http://lists.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2012-August/338243.html</a><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Karl<br></div></div>