[mythtv-users] Removing unwanted channels - lots of them!

[Mike Dent]

On 4/25/07, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 04/25/2007 11:06 AM, Mike Dent wrote:
> > On 4/25/07, Ben Lancaster <lists at benlancaster.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >>> I'm in the UK and using the xmltv grabber to get the channel
> >>> listing data from Radio Times HQ. I have a uk_rt.xmltv file with
> >>> 260 entries!
> >>>
> >> The mistake you made was choosing "all" when you did the initial
> >> xmltv_rt setup, rather then selectively choose the channels available
> >> to freeview.
> > I assume I cannot just run mythtv-setup again and correct this?
>
> Actually, running mythtv-setup and using the "Delete all video sources"
> button to remove all video sources (and it has to be "Delete all") and
> then re-creating video sources, input connections, and channels is the
> best approach.  Doing so will clean out everything that's not needed.
>
> Mike

Hi Mike,
just done that, all looked good until I ran mythfilldatabase and now
the EPG is full
of every channel I dont want now?
I checked the EPG before running mythfilldatabase and it seemed ok, ie
only the UK freeview channels were there.

Thanks

Mike