[mythtv-users] how to switch a channel to a different frequency?

Marco Nelissen marco.nelissen at gmail.com
Wed May 15 00:26:48 UTC 2013


On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:

> On 05/13/2013 11:57 PM, Marco Nelissen wrote:
>
>> I scrolled through the guide for KTVU but it just said "unknown"
>> everywhere, so it looks like it's not getting any data at all.
>> "mythfilldatabase --dd-grab-all" didn't change that. How does it actually
>> match up the channels defined in mythtv with the channels I've enabled on
>> schedulesdirect? Is it purely by the numeric id (19571/76387), the call
>> sign, or something else?
>>
>
> It's purely XMLTV ID.  Therefore, if you have the right XMLTV ID on the
> new channel, you likely have another channel in MythTV defined to use the
> same XMLTV ID.  mythfilldatabase will only put data into the first channel
> it finds with that XMLTV ID.


I ran mythfilldatabase again today, after which that channel had guide data
for a few hours spread over a few days. Ran it again, and now all the days
have data. Weird...



>
>> One other thing I noticed was that my existing KTVU recordings are fine
>> before April 15, and corrupted/unwatchable after. April 15 is when I last
>> did a full channel scan to resolve an issue with a different channel. The
>> non-corrupted recordings from before that time are all prefixed with 1665_,
>> whereas the corrupted/unwatchable ones are prefixed with 1670_. The "other"
>> KTVU I configured earlier today has a prefix of 1672 it seems. Not sure
>> what that prefix actually means though or whether it's even relevant here.
>>
>
> That won't affect anything.  It's just an internal identifier used by
> MythTV for channels.
>
>
> Mike
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