[mythtv-users] SD - Can't retrieve channels from grabber source

Donald J. Maddox dmaddox099 at yahoo.com
Sun Sep 9 18:53:05 UTC 2007


Daniel Kristjansson wrote:

>On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 14:32 -0400, Donald J. Maddox wrote:
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>>I subscribed to SD today, and had no problem retrieving my channel 
>>lineups - but when I try to 'get channels from grabber source' it seems 
>>to get the channels, but doesn't actually add them to the video 
>>source...  When I say it seems to work, I mean I see this in the output 
>>if I run mythtvsetup from a commandline (but no channels get added):
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>Are you using firewire? There was a bug in the 0.20.2 release that
>prevents channels from being added to a firewire connected source.
>The workaround is to disconnect the source from the firewire card
>in input connections and run mythfilldatabase on the command line.
>Alternatively you can upgrade to the latest and greatest 0.20-fixes
>which has a fix for this bug as of 3 days ago.
>
>-- Daniel
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Yes, I am using firewire...  I'll try what you say - but won't I still 
need to be able to add channels to the firewire tuner after I run 
mythfilldatabase?



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