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

[ebike at paradise.net.nz]

Frequency information is in a really odd place, I found. It took me ages to find 
out how to set the channels correctly, and only with help from this forum.

The method is this:

1. With xawtv find out what channel numbers correspond to what on-air channel 
for your country/town etc, write them down.

2. In the setup program (i.e run ./setup from mythtv/setup/ directory) goto the 
channel editor page, goto the next page and you will find a setting called 
"Frequency ID" (yep a confusing misnomer!!) and put in the channel number you 
got from xawtv in there .... go figure!!

Cheers,
Bernie


Quoting "gkanis at cems.umn.edu" <gkanis at cems.umn.edu>:

> Which driver do you use to control the tv-card?
> Are you loading the driver with the right parameters?
> 
> Vasilis
> 
> 
> On Tuesday 02 March 2004 10:52 am, Adrian Townsend wrote:
> > frequencies are usually hard-set on the tuner aren't
> > they?
> >
> > as far as I know you can't change them . .. sorry for
> > the bad news.
> >
> > --- "Claus M. Christiansen" <a at skjern-net.dk> wrote:
> > > Hi...
> > >
> > > 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..
> > >
> > > I live in Denmark and use PAL as my TV standard.
> > >
> > > Claus
> > >
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