[mythtv-users] Cannot change channels using EPG

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Mon Jul 9 20:51:31 UTC 2007


On Jul 9, 2007, at 1:45 PM, Tom Andrews wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 13:35 -0700, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>> On Jul 9, 2007, at 1:26 PM, Tom Andrews wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 12:02 -0700, Tom Greer wrote:
>>>> On 7/8/07, Tom Andrews <ta264 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been attempting to set up MythTV for the past couple of
>>>>> days.  It's
>>>>> mostly working except that I cannot change channels using the
>>>>> EPG.  I
>>>>> move over a channel and press 'm', and it just dumps me back on  
>>>>> the
>>>>> channel I was watching before and flashes up the OSD with the
>>>>> original
>>>>> channel info a couple of times.  I can change channel
>>>>> successfully if I
>>>>> use browse mode.
>>>>
>>>> Try turning on the option "Use select to change the channel in the
>>>> program guide".  With the option on, you simply press the OK/Select
>>>> button on your remote (ENTER on the keyboard) to change to the
>>>> current
>>>> channel in the EPG.
>>>>
>>>> This option can be found via the menus at Utilities/Setup ->  
>>>> Setup ->
>>>> TV Settings -> Program Guide on Page 2.
>>>>
>>>> Tom
>>>
>>> I've tried that, and I get the same result, except I have to press
>>> ENTER
>>> instead :(  It just exits the guide but doesn't change channel.
>>
>> Are you using a channel change script? Maybe the user you're running
>> the frontend as doesn't have permission to execute the channel change
>> script?
>
> No, I haven't messed with any channel script settings.  I'm also using
> an internal pci tuner, which makes it even more odd.  It happens with
> the Ubuntu feisty version (from January) and the latest snapshot from
> 0.20-fixes (from the mythbuntu repository).  Could it be the packages
> somehow?  I guess the next thing is to try compiling from source...

Knowing what tuner might help.



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