[mythtv-users] Where does mythtv get the frequencies from?

[Timo Boettcher]

Hi Claus,


* Claus M. Christiansen <a at skjern-net.dk>, Tuesday, March 2, 2004, 5:27:06 PM:
> I finally had my tv-card, an Hauppage PVR-350, up and running in
> Linux and I have succeded in installing mythtv. I have also run the
> mythfilldatabase with --manual to get channel info and so on but the
> problems lies when I start up mythtv. The main part of the channels
> is just noice and only some of them have a clear picture on them. I
> thinking that is must because the frequencies that mythtv tunes into
> are the wrong ones, so I decided to change to manually but where do
> i do so?! I can't seem to find frequency information anywhere in the
> database. What controls the frequencies?! I first thought that they
> came automatically from mythfilldatabase when you run it with the
> --manual flag..
Yeah, there is a field called channel id (or something like that).
Please be aware, that the frequency names given to you by your
cable-provider (I assume you are on cable) may not necessarily match
the frequency names that mythtv wants. See
libs/libmythtv/frequencies.c in the Mythtv-source for details.
Also, make sure that you have set the correct tuner type in your
modules.conf, having a wrong tuner-type could have similar symptons.
To find out what kind of tuner you have, modprobe tveeprom (out of the
ivtv driver) and look in you kernel-messages with dmesg. It will be
listed there.

> I live in Denmark and use PAL as my TV standard.




 Timo