[mythtv-users] Same channels on different sources

Yeechang Lee ylee at pobox.com
Wed Nov 29 09:00:39 UTC 2006


Gary Dawes <gary.dawes at gmail.com> says:
> It's fairly easy really, for each duplicated channel, just ensure that the
> channel name, callsign and number are the same.

Just the callsign. The channel name and channel number are cosmetic.

> If you want the same xmltv data for each channel, then just ensure that the
> xmltv field is the same on each channel, and that you have the xml field
> entry in each video source.

Correct.

> Myth will then display the epg data once for each duplicated channel.

In MythWeb, yes, but in mythfrontend's Program Guide each channel (if
with a unique channel number) will still appear separately. The latter
is correct behavior; months ago I submitted a ticket to get the former
fixed.

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