[mythtv-users] multiple identical channel numbers?
Ben Bucksch
linux.news at bucksch.org
Mon Jun 2 11:25:13 EDT 2003
Chris Petersen wrote:
>>use chanids instead of channums to reference channels
>>
>>
>well, that's what I *was* doing. but for some reason, I was still only
>getting one channel worth of information for duplicates in my list
>
sure, if you use chanid, there is always at most one channel (row) with
that id.
>on that note, is there an easy way to get myth to update its
>channel/program data with new information from xmltv? I've commented
>out a bunch of channels and would like to get myth to acknowledge that
>fact. Or is wiping it and regrabbing everything the simplest way?
>
I don't think that update removes anything (apart from outdated stuff),
so yes, wiping or manually deleting some rows would be the way.
BTW: Wiping the program table will lose non-recoverable information, if
the program.overridesomething column from that 'don't supress' patch is
added.
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