[mythtv-users] Guidance for phase 9

[Stephen Worthington]

On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 14:52:39 -0400, you wrote:

>On 8/15/19, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 15, 2019, 1:10 PM Tom Dexter, <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> I've attached that perl script here. Note that it has pretty thorough
>>> help using -h or --help. A few things to note:
>>>
>>> 1. Obviously this is only intended for U.S. ATSC.
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>
>>
>> I guess for completeness sake, #1 should state it's good for North American
>> ATSC, as Canada is undergoing the repack too.
>>
>> Thanks for the script.
>>
>You're quite welcome!
>
>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?
>
>Tom

In Ubuntu, the us-ATSC-center-frequencies-8VSB file comes from the
dtv-scan-tables package, and I also have another copy that comes from
my tvheadend package:

/usr/share/tvheadend/data/dvb-scan/atsc/us-ATSC-center-frequencies-8VSB