[mythtv-users] Removing DVB-channels

Peter Martens petermartens at gmail.com
Tue Oct 11 09:06:12 UTC 2005


2005/10/11, John Pullan <john.pullan at gmail.com>:
> On 11/10/05, Peter Martens <petermartens at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >Can anyone help me with removing all the DVB channel info (channels,
> > > >transports...) from the database, so I can start over with scanning
> > > >for channels. Scanning now takes a long time because MythTV is trying
> > > >to scan all transports (most of them do not contain channels).
> > > >
> > > >
> > > As mythtv-setup starts, it asks if you want to clear the channel info,
> > > just say yes to this question.
> > >
> > Yes, but that would mean I also lose the settings for my analog
> > channels and I do not want that to happen.
> > Must be another way to accomplish this?
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> Go to "Advanced" under the channel editor, and remove each transport
> in turn. That should remove the associated channels. (try it on one
> first though, there was a bug where it didn't do this but I can't
> remember when it got fixed )
>
Thanks. I ll try that.
However I want to scan for channels again, afterwards. Now, I have
experienced that when I enter all the transports mannually it works
like a charm. But "auto" scan seems to find the wrong transports. Am I
doing something wrong?


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