[mythtv-users] Really hiding a channel

[Scott Rowe]

Damn, that's slick!  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Markey
> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 1:38 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Really hiding a channel
> 
> I would fully agree with James' for 0.14 and XMLTV but I 
> noticed you mentioned "myth CVS internal DataDirect" so this 
> is now very different.
> 
> First, if you want to exclude a channel from your DataDirect 
> downloads, go to labs.zap2it.com and modify your lineup by 
> unchecking the unwanted channel. Easy, right? ;-) You will 
> still need to follow the instructions for removing the 
> channel entry and old program data at:
> 
> http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-21.html#ss21.8
> 
> Next, if you do receive the same station from two sources and 
> you would prefer recording from one of the sources over the 
> other, the new scheduler handles this nicely. Say for example 
> source 1 is analog and the low channels are noisy but source 
> 4 is a clean satellite feed. You can go to Setup->TV 
> Settings->Recording
> Priorities->Channel Priorities and add a value of +1 for your
> satellite channel 2. The scheduler will always prefer 
> recording from that channel input but can still record from 
> the analog channel 2 if source 4 is busy with something else.
> 
> You could instead/also re-run "setup" and go to Input Connections.
> If you set "Input preference" to +1 for the satellite input, 
> that will tell the scheduler that you want shows recorded 
> from satellite whenever possible and only use source 1 for 
> shows that cannot be recorded from source 4.
> 
> --  bjm
> 
>