[mythtv-users] How does mythtv determine tuning frequency?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 06/05/2011 02:51 PM, Jerry Rubinow wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Ginsu Squirrel wrote:
>>   On 06/05/2011 11:21 AM, Jerry Rubinow wrote:
>>>   It appears that doing a Deleta All Video Sources followed by a Delete All
>>> Capture Cards does not clear out the three channelscan (only two of which
>>> perhaps are still used anymore; I think the third, "channelscan", may be
>>> leftover in my DB from a long time ago) tables in the DB.  I will clear
>>> these manually before adding back the cards and sources
>> The channelscan tables are really just the history of what you have
>> scanned.  They aren't used in tuning.  The real tables are 'channel' and
>> 'dtv_multiplex'.
> Just to clarify, you are using 'channelscan' to refer to 'channelscan' and
> 'channelscan_channels', but not to 'channelscan_dtv_multiplex', yes?
>
> 'channel' was cleared, but the three that begin with 'channelscan' were not.

Those channel scan tables will be cleared appropriately by the channel 
scanner, itself, when you do a new scan (how much clearing depends on 
the type of scan).  So no need to worry about them.

Mike