[mythtv-users] Advice on a UK Shuttle XPC setup...

[Joel Merrick]

On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 12:32 +0000, Prash wrote:
> > > 1) How do I populate the channel list automatically.. I've had a play
> > > with the tv_grab_uk_rt stuff and it seems to get the list, I've then
> > > configured a few channels via the command line, but that's as far as I
> > > can get.. nothing shows within mythtv itself and I can't really be
> > > mithered typing in the whole list of channels. Do I really have to enter
> > > all of the frequency settings, xml, ids etc.. in mythtv-setup? Seem like
> > > a major headache if so.. If anyone can point me to any SQL scripts or
> > > bash scripts that could take care of this, I'd appreciate it (I'm based
> > > in Manchester)
> 
> 
> Yes - you have to enter the channels. First open up a mplayer
> /dev/video0 and  all the frequencies using ivtvctl/ptune. ivtvctl will
> also tell you when the signal is good.
> 
> You can then either 
>  -write your own script to insert the data into channel and program table
>  - or enter them manually using mythfilldatabase --manual
> 
> All you have to do is go through the channels in 
> For eg:
> 
> ptune.pl --freqtable pal-europe-west --list-channels
> Set the frequencies using either ivtvctl or ptune.pl 
> View using mplayer
> identify the radiotimes Id  (same as in config file when --configure
> command of tv_grab_uk_rt)
> Insert data using mysql
> 
> (run tv_grab_uk_rt with your config file and pipe it to
> mythfillatabase to populate program table)

Cool, thanks for the heads-up.. The process of adding channels seems to
be awfully fragmented and clunky.. maybe it's just me, but I'm sure that
this process could be improved on.

> 
> > >
> > > 2) I get a blank screen when I try and watch tv. However if I run scan
> > > from the command line I can scan for channels and it picks them up,
> > > meaning that all the modules are loaded for the 350 etc.. I presume this
> > > problem will be related to the above.
> > >
> 
> blank black screen? Normally happens when you haven't set up the -p
> option in ivtvctl.
> 

Thanks once again, I'll give it a whirl when I'm in front of the
machine.

> 
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