[mythtv-users] UK Nova-T Crystal Palace EPG Problems with tv_grab_dvb

[Neil]

Hi All,

total Myth TV newbie here, having some problems with the EPG.

I've successfully set up MythTV and the Web Front End, and can happily
watch all of the Freeview channels in 'LiveTV' mode and record *some*
programs (others fail, but I suspect that is due to the main problem).
However, I'm having some problems grabbing the data for the EPG.

Initially I set up a standard XMLTV grab, and that was *partially*
successful. I say partial, as it only grabbed the data for a few
channels. 

Whilst looking for a solution I came across the tv_grab_dvb program. And
followed the instructions on
http://www.ethics-gradient.net/myth/mythdvb2.html 

Sadly, this didn't seem to work. I successfully get an xml file full of
tv program data, but when I pipe the output into mythfilldatabase, it
doesn't add that data to the guide (there is also an issue of duplicate
channel id's - its seems to think that both cbeebies and UK TV History
have an id of 402!)

I think that the problem is something to do with channel id's not
matching up in my chanidents file and the channel table in the db, but I
am having no luck in finding a solution.

Is anybody out there using tv_grab_dvb to capture data from the Crystal
Palace transmitter? And if so, would it be possible for them to send me
a dump of their channel, dvb_channel, and dvb_pids tables? I realise
that there is one on the site above, but I think it is out of date as
there are some channels missing.

I think that I'd also need a copy of your channels.conf and chanidents
files as well?

Alternatively, if there's any other advice you could give as to how to
solve this problem, please let me know. I can happily find my way around
Mysql and the mythconverg db and dump the data here if that would help.

Many thanks in advance

Neil