[mythtv-users] no channel lock - live TV

nick boexli at gmx.net
Fri May 2 19:26:39 UTC 2008


On Thursday 01 May 2008 17:42:41 Greg Thomas wrote:
> 2008/5/1 Nick Petrik <nickpetrik at gmx.net>:
> > Hi All,
> >
> >  I have seen many posts about this issue but no answers that would help
> > me to get this issue solved.
> >
> >  I have successfully scanned the channels using MYTHTV. I also know that
> > the card works because it works with other progs such as kaffeine.
> >
> >  But everytime I want to watch live TV in Mythtv I get the message
> > telling me that I should have got a channel lock by now. Nothing more. Is
> > there anything I might have missed? Thanks for your help / Nick
>
> I have seen this, and not yet sorted out a resolution. However, I did
> notice from the logs that MythTV appeared to be attempting to tune in
> (to a DVB-T card) to a frequency that was different from that which
> the dvbutils "dvbstream" wanted (though it's quite possible I misread
> the logs). I've yet to investigate further to find the underlying
> cause, but you might want to have a look at the frequency in your logs
> and compare that to the output of t/c/sscan.
>
> Greg
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I fixed it for a few channels manually - frequencies in the backend DB are 
screwedup. Too bad that there is no fix to get this done automatically - I 
saw  a scrip but that does only work if you can import the channel via 
channels.conf - which I have not yet managed . cheers Nick


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