[mythtv-users] myth-setup question

[Albert Ulmer]

On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 00:27:50 +0100, Allan Stirling
<dibblahmythml0015 at pendor.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> Albert Ulmer wrote:
> > On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 12:10:15 +0100, Allan Stirling
> > <dibblahmythml0015 at pendor.org> wrote:
> >
> >>Scanning is a bit different for DVB - You can't just treat it like an
> >>analog tuner. You need the dvb-apps package and within that there's dvbscan.
> >
> > OK, I managed to adapt one of the samples (de-Berlin) provided with
> > dvbscan to the information given to me by my cable provider. I now
> > have a channel.conf in my home directory and would like to feed them
> > to MythTV.
> >
> > How can I accomplish that? Can I use mythfilldatabase or is there some
> > conversion neede beforehand?
> >
> 
> The steps I think you need to do (please, anyone else jump in here) are:
> 1. mythfilldatabase with your country grabber to get your channels set up.
> 2. Go to http://cvs.mythtv.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/
> and get mythtv/contrib/channels.conf-import.pl
> (Sorry - CVS web access is not working for me at the moment for some
> reason, so I can't check the full path)
> 
> 3. chmod 755 channels.conf-import.pl
> 
> 3. Edit channels.conf-import.pl to set the import file type or pass it
> the right command line arguments (-t (tzap), -s (szap), -c (czap), etc).
> 
> 4. Run ./channels.conf-import.pl
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Allan.
> 
Thanks for the hint! Are you sure the URL is correct? I get "no route
to host" when trying to access it, even though I can get to anywhere
else on the Internet...

Best regards,
Albert.