[mythtv-users] I have written a DVB-T (freeview) auto channel setup script..

[Ciaran]

I used it the other night, found a couple of bugs and reported them to
the developer who fixed them, this no longer has problems and works
well with either the radio times listings or the dvb OTA stuff :)
 -ciaran


On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 17:19:36 +0100, Damien Tanner <dctanner at gmail.com> wrote:
> iirc this script has a problems.
> 
> dc.
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> On Sat,  9 Oct 2004 16:06:26 +0100, Mike Ryan <mythtv at redmar.com> wrote:
> > Actually, I just came across this on the web that sounds quite similar:
> >
> > http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/dvb/
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> >
> > Quoting Mike Ryan <mythtv at redmar.com>:
> >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > Even if it doesn't get accepted, any chance you could post it as I'm in the
> > > middle of adding all mine again?
> > >
> > > Incidentally, does it tie up the channels with the xmltv id's for use with
> > > tv_grab_dvb? ie, does BBC1 = 4164.dvb.guide , etc
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> > > Quoting George Styles <george at ripnet.co.uk>:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Sorry for xpost if its not approriate.
> > > >
> > > > Following the recent re-shuffle of PIDs in the UK on Freeview, I got fed up
> > > > manually setting up channels.
> > > >
> > > > I have written a PHP script which uses dvbscan (part of the LinuxTV tools)
> > > to
> > > > dump out the channel list, and populate the channel tables in MythTV.
> > > >
> > > > It populates channel, dvb_channel, and dvb_pids automatically.
> > > >
> > > > At the moment, you have to change one line to indicate the starting
> > > frequency
> > > > for your local transmitter. LinuxTV is supplied with a list of transmitters
> > > > and their frequencies.
> > > >
> > > > It uses the ServiceID as the chanID in mythtv (as I believe these stay
> > > > constant)
> > > >
> > > > It also 'fixes up' the radio channels by assigning a dummy video PID from
> > > the
> > > > same MUX, so they work in MythTV.
> > > >
> > > > It outputs a SQL script, which you can pipe to mysql to do the setup.
> > > >
> > > > Can I contribute this to mythtv? i also wanted to contribute my
> > > auto-archive
> > > > script (which only works for DVB recordings) as well. Is is possible to
> > > have
> > > > partial CVS access for my tools? If not, I will throw together a web page
> > > > with them on.
> > > >
> > > > g
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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