[mythtv-users] Re: Fedora Mythtv, pcHDTV and Comcast?

Mark Linford mlinford+mythtv at gmail.com
Tue Oct 11 22:21:55 UTC 2005


On 10/11/05, Dennis Lou <dlou99 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Now, I start mythfrontend. I go to "Watch TV,"
> >and pull of the onscreen guide. I select channel
> >707, but only get static. Thinking
> > that it might be trying to use the PVR-150, I
> >switch tuners
>
> Did you set up a separate line-up at zap2it for
> the HD3000 or did you just add the HD channel
> to the existing lineup associated with the PVR150?
> I think you need to do the former.
>
> What I did was add the digital lineup at zap2it,
> kill mythbackend, do a channel scan from myth,
> do a mythfilldatabase, go into mysql to
> change the xmltvid of the scanned channels to
> be that of the channels mythfilldatabase added
> restart mythbackend and used mythweb to delete
> the channels from zap2it.
>
> For the channels without PSIP data, I used
> the existing channels as a template to add
> to the mysql db.
>
> -Dennis
>

Yes, I created a separate zap2it list for just the HD channels,
assigned that to the pcHTDV3k, and manually adjusted the database.
Now, it looks like I can get Myth to tune my HD channels (hurray!),
but I'm having playback issues (please see my previous post) that I'm
hunting down ...

Mark


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