[mythtv-users] DVB Setup, Channel numbers, chanid

[Per Åge Sørvik]

Mark Howells wrote:

>Please can someone explain to me the relevance of columns in the
>channel table - particularly w.r.t a DVB setup.
>
>I'm running a CVS release from around 20th Nov.  and have the DVB
>patch installed.  All goes well during setup and the autoscan finds
>the channels I expect.  However, when I run the backend I see
>
>DVB#0 Trying to tune to channel 1000.
>2004-11-24 21:22:48.373 DVB#0 ERROR - Unable to find channel in database.
>2004-11-24 21:22:48.374 DVB#0 ERROR - Failed to get channel options
>for channel1000.
>
>However,  the entry for BBC ONE has the following
>
>chanid=1000, channum=4173.  When I try to watch livetv I
>(unsurprisingly) get a black screen.  I also can't for the life of me
>see where I can set the initial channel for the backend.  I also don't
>know how remote/keyboard channels (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) are mapped to either
>the channum of chanid.
>
>  
>
The remote numericals is mapped to the channum field. The chanid field 
is referenced from the dvb_channel table, where the actual dvb specific 
stuff is stored, except for the pids table. This is for 0.16 BTW, don't 
know what's changed with the patch.

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