[mythtv-users] Guidance for phase 9

[Douglas Paul]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 02:52:39PM -0400, Tom Dexter wrote:
> Note that the validation that script does against the frequencies (see
> the get_us_atsc_frequencies function) was originally based on a file
> on my backend at the path
> /usr/share/dvb/atsc/us-ATSC-center-frequencies-8VSB.
> 
> I'm a bit at my wits end on that however, as I no longer have that
> file. I'm running Gentoo, and I *think* that file was part of the
> media-tv/linuxtv-dvb-apps package...at least I think so. That got
> upgraded in March too...possibly the new version doesn't have that(?).
> 
> Wow does that throw me off. Does anyone have any idea what usually
> provides that file?

I used that file frequently before too ... and on my Gentoo systems it
is gone now as well.

There is a note in a README for scan-dvb of the new place to get those
files:

git clone http://linuxtv.org/git/dtv-scan-tables.git

Looks like the format of the file has changed somewhat to what used to
be there.

Looks like this change was committed in dvb-apps in Dec 2013 ... so it's
been a while :) Not sure when the newer version went stable in Gentoo.

-- 
Douglas Paul