[mythtv-users] Not getting all channels!

[Harry Devine]

Phil Bridges wrote:
> On 10/23/07, Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net> wrote:
>   
>> Phil Bridges wrote:
>>     
>>> On 10/22/07, Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Marc wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Usually not.. The encrypted channels are usually encrypted over the firewire
>>>>> port too.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> I'm still pulling my hair out over this.  I'm only getting 50 of my 320
>>>> channels to be tuned.  I ran the scan utility that was included with the
>>>> dvb-apps tools, and used the US-Cable-Standard-center-frequencies-QAM256
>>>> file with it.  I put the output into the attached file.  It is very
>>>> similar to the output shown at
>>>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Working_QAM_cable_layout, but my
>>>> area isn't listed.  Can I assume from the output that I'm getting all
>>>> channels, and that I have to tweak Myth to know about them based on the
>>>> scanned values (rather than the current "17#0", etc.)?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Harry
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> You'll need to follow the directions here:
>>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB_search and here:
>>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Adding_QAM_Channels_For_HDTV_Tuner_Cards
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> I'll try them again, but the last time I tried to follow those
>> directions, it didn't work.  The scripts that are on those pages don't
>> work at all.  Maybe the scripts are geared towards another distro?  I'm
>> using FC6 via MythDora 4.  There isn't any contact information on those
>> pages either, so I can't contact the author and get help on the scripts.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Harry
>>
>>     
>
> What do the scripts do when you try to execute them?  In the worst
> case, you should be able to go into the channel editor in
> mythtv-setup, view the channels, and assign XMLTV IDs as appropriate.
>
>   
I just got home and tried running that script.  I ran fixnames.sh (shown 
in http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB_search) and it repeatedly 
prints out the following:  "./fixnames.sh: line 8: bc: command not 
found".  I created that script at /root/.mplayer/ and ran it on a 
channels.conf that I had there (from the scan utility; I copied the scan 
output text file over as channels.conf, stripping out the non-QAM 
information).  I never bothered to type up the second script on that 
site (scan.sh) since the first one didn't work.

Any ideas?
Harry
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