[mythtv-users] Guidance for phase 9

[Tom Dexter]

On 8/15/19, Douglas Paul <doug at bogon.ca> wrote:
> 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
>
Ahhh...yea, that explains it. It appears that in March they went
stable from media-tv/linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1.1.20100223-r1 to
media-tv/linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1.1.20140321 which includes that 2013
change. Thanks!

Tom