[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase

[Peter Bennett]

On 03/08/2018 06:44 AM, Klaus Becker wrote:
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> Le Wednesday, 7 March 2018 17:06:02 CET, vous avez écrit :
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> > On 2018-03-07 10:31 AM, Klaus Becker wrote:
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> > > Le Sunday, 4 March 2018 23:23:33 CET, vous avez écrit :
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> > >> On 2018-03-04 07:33 AM, Klaus Becker wrote:
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> > > Hi Geoff and all who answered me,
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> > >
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> ...
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> > > Nevertheless I shall try with Zap, but it's not so easy too.
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> >
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> > It has been a while since I used the zap utilities! The instructions are
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> > sometimes vague But it is worth it to know that your hardware works
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> > properly: you can stream output to a file, and then play that file, with
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> > vlc or mplayer or whatever.
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> >
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> >
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> > Geoff
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> Ghi Geoff and all,
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> mplayer /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0
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> Works, but the channel changes each time and I don't know where it 
> takes the channels from and how to choose the channel I want to regard.
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> Otherwise I created a channel.conf with "w_scan -f s -s S19E2 -c DE".
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> I can verify the signal strength for ex with
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> "szap -r 'KIKA;ZDFvision'",
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> But I cannot record with
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> "$ szap -o file 'KIKA;ZDFvision'", it tells me
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> "szap: invalid option -- 'o'
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> ...
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> reading channels from file '/home/klaus/.szap/channels.conf' channel 
> not found."
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> However I found this at https://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Zap.
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> "szap -i" does not work either.
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> How to use szap to record a channel?
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> Cheers
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> Klaus
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>
This seems a bit off the topic of mythfilldatabase.

There is an example of a script that records using azap in below page. 
azap is the USA version of szap. Click "Expand" on the sample script.
https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Import_recorder

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