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

Tony Maro tony at maro.net
Tue Mar 2 13:56:43 EST 2004


Claus M. Christiansen 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..
> 

Could be your tuner wsa detected wrong and needs to be set in modules.conf ?

It sounds similar to what I had happen, but then again I don't have that 
card.  For me in USA I had to add "options tuner type=2" to modules.conf.

-Tony



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