[mythtv-users] Mythfilldatabase and duplicate channels - UK

Julian Edwards myth at julian-edwards.com
Tue May 10 22:48:13 UTC 2005


stan at stanandliz.net wrote:

>Hi
>
>I am in the UK in London. I am using xmltv to grab program info via
>mythfilldatabase.
>
>However, when I do this, my EPG and Mythweb show more than one entry for
>BBC One, ITV etc.
>
>In other words, there is more than one channel ID for these duplicate
>channels and mythfilldatabase is treating them as different channels.
>
>I'd like to know how to stop MythTV from importing these channels -
>running "mythfilldatabase --help" does not come up with anything useful
>and running "mythfilldatabase --manual" does not give me the option of
>excluding a channel!
>  
>
Are you using DVB? You need to set the xmltv ID manually in mysql for 
the scanned channels, otherwise mythfilldatabase creates new ones.

I think we need some sort of way of automatically converting DVB channel 
names to xmltv IDs for those not using EIT programme data.



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