[mythtv-users] Doing an actual scan of the channels

[Ciro Iriarte]

2008/3/17, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>:
> On 03/17/2008 11:34 AM, Ciro Iriarte wrote:
>  > 2008/2/22, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>:
>  >
>  >> On 02/21/2008 02:47 PM, Ciro Iriarte wrote:
>  >>  > Hi, is it possible to do a real scan of the channels without relying
>  >>  > on a frequency table?
>  >>
>  >>
>  >> In trunk/0.21-fixes, yeah.
>
> > Hi, tried with 0.21 thanks to the people at packman. Selecting try-all
>  > as table frequency it tries about 900 positions and finds 6 channels
>  > (we have locally 5 air channels). When I try them there's no image, in
>  > any of them... It's not the regular static either, it's just a mess,
>  > like static but with turbulence, i'm not sure how to describe it, but
>  > certainly, the channels aren't tunned.
>
>
> Probably because Myth was unable to find the true center of the video
>  carrier, so it's got a value that's "within the band", but it doesn't
>  lock properly, so you need to adjust the frequencies.
>
>  However, if you only have 5 channels, you should really think about just
>  adding them manually.  Do
>  http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/264034#264034 to
>  clean up the mess that's in there now (but don't do the channel scan or
>  "Fetch channels from listings source"), then use the channel editor to
>  create 5 new channels typing in the center frequency of the video
>  carrier (in kHz) for the freqid.  Make sure each channel has a unique
>  channel number and channel callsign.
>
>
>  Mike

Ok, but where do I take the correct frequencies from?

Ciro