<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 11:33 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:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Karl Newman wrote:<br>
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> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Per Jessen <<a href="mailto:per@computer.org">per@computer.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> 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>><br>
>> > wrote:<br>
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>> >> There's plenty of unnecessary channels, thousands. I could delete<br>
>> >> some, but they'll come right back on the next channel scan :-(<br>
>> >><br>
>> > Thousands seems like a lot more than the "hundreds" of channels<br>
>> > that probably most MythTV users have.<br>
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>> Anyone with a satellite dish will have something on that order I<br>
>> suspect. My old Nokia 9902, the predecessor recorder, had about 3500<br>
>> channels since 2001.<br>
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>> > If you mark them as invisible instead of deleting them, does that<br>
>> > survive a channel rescan? I don't know if that would help the<br>
>> > scheduler run faster, but I do know that invisible channels<br>
>> > are excluded from scheduling, so it's possible it could help.<br>
>><br>
>> I have not experimented with invisible/deleting channels, but I<br>
>> suspect the next scan will obliterate any changes I do. Editing<br>
>> thousands of channels using the GUI is also not something I'd look<br>
>> forward to :-)<br>
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>> /Per<br>
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> One UK user wrote a nice script for managing channels through a scan,<br>
> which would probably help in your situation. Check it out here:<br>
> <a href="http://lists.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2012-August/338243.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2012-August/338243.html</a><br>
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I don't want to dismiss it immediately, but it seems limited to UK<br>
channels only.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's how it appears from the description, but I recall that other users outside the UK were able to easily adapt it as a general purpose channel management script. I'm surprised some of the users haven't jumped in here.<br><br></div><div>Karl<br></div></div></div></div>