[mythtv-users] script for locating QAM channels - big usability improvement

[Peter Watkins]

Brian Wood wrote:
> On Mar 4, 2006, at 9:47 PM, Peter Watkins wrote:

>>The wiki page about adding QAM channels at
>>http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/
>>Adding_QAM_Channels_For_HDTV_Tuner_Cards
>>has been very helpful, but the azap/mplayer steps seemed like a
>>bunch of
>>work. To make things easier, I've cobbled together a script to
>>drive all
>>the tasks involved in finding channels, testing them, and creating
>>a new
>>channels.conf file.

> Interesting, and I'll give it a try.

I've just posted an updated version of the script that features one
*huge* usability improvement -- the script now requires far less user
input and attention.

While the old script would spawn mplayer and rely on the user to kill
mplayer and type "Y" or "N" to indicate if the channel was OK, this new
version uses mplayer's "-v" option so that it can tell if mplayer was
able to find a video stream (i.e., if the channel is usable).

Any comments are most welcome.

http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#qamscan

-Peter
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