[mythtv-users] Confused on how to use channels.conf

[Nick Morrott]

On 22/05/07, Michelle Dupuis <support at ocg.ca> wrote:
>
> I have my DVB-S card driver working, and scandvb finds the satellite and
> lists a bunch of channels!! YAY! (This is a thrill for me, as I didn't think
> I would get this far)
>
> I used scandvb to create a channels.conf file whose contents looks like this
> (cut off after the first five lines):
> HSTDv:12224:h:1:20000:4642:4644:84
> CPACF:12224:h:1:20000:5666:5668:149
> NEWS1:12224:h:1:20000:6434:6435:196
> A-LON:12224:h:1:20000:4130:4131:220
>
> I then went to myth's back-end setup, where I have setup the dvb-s card and
> the video source. I then created a new input and tried to scan the
> satellite. I told myth to use the channels.conf I created, but then Myth
> just times out while scanning (can't get a lock) - and signal strength is
> 0%.

If you import a good channels.conf file, you should not need to then
scan for channels - this is the purpose of importing the
(dvb)scan-generated channels.conf file in the first place.
-- 
Nick

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