[mythtv-users] Guidance for phase 9

[Tom Dexter]

On 8/15/19, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
Wow. You weren't kidding about the format changing. Among other things
they completely removed the associated UHF and VHF channel
numbers...which was mostly what I used it for. Glad I still have that
data in my script.

Tom