[mythtv-users] DVB-T Tuning weirdness UK - Crystal Palace

Nick Craig-Wood nick at craig-wood.com
Fri Jun 16 12:43:48 UTC 2006


Ben Lancaster <lists at benlancaster.co.uk> wrote:
>  Murray Peterson wrote:
> 
> > The problem that I have is that when performing a full scan it  
> > seems to be
> > pot-luck which mux's the machine will see.  Performing additional  
> > scans
> > sometimes results in mythtv-setup realising that it already knows  
> > about a
> > channel, and sometimes adding the channel to the list again. and  
> > again.
> >
> > And it's very seldom that I will see muxa (I think - the one with  
> > five,
> > and the pay channels) and putting in the relevant tuning parameters  
> > myth
> > does see some transport streams, but I never get any services  
> > presented.
> 
>  What are you using to scan for the channels? Myth's own built in  
>  scanner, or something else? I installed the dvbapps package (IIRC)  
>  via yum, and used the built-in scan application within that using the  
>  preset Hanningdon transmitter details, then imported the  
>  channels.conf that produced into MythTV via its scan GUI.

I had exactly the same problem.  I just couldn't get MythTV's scan to
find all the multiplexes.  I ended up using scan and manually
importing the channels.conf file.  (Actually I edited the
channels.conf file first to remove all the junk channels I don't
want!)
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