[mythtv-users] importing channels.conf

[Steven Adeff]

On 1/30/06, Dylan R. Semler <dsemler at macalester.edu> wrote:
>
> I recently used an ad-hoc and ugly channel scanning method that I came
> up with that found 60 digital channels, most of which were not HD.  When
> I use mythtv's scanning tool, it only finds about 7, all of which are
> HD.  The other digital channels are of much better quality than my
> analog feed so I was wondering if there was a standard way to import a
> large amount of channels into the database.  I've made a channels.conf
> file and formatted it with all of the channels that I want to import.
>
> I'm a bit doubtful that there is a way to do this automatically as I
> can't even seem to find a way to add a single digital channel.  In
> mythtv-setup there is an option to add a channel, but this seems to only
> work for analog channels where there is only one channel/frequency (i.e.
> I found no where to add info about the different subchannels of the
> frequency).  I've seen ways to add channels through mysql (i believe)
> but I know nothing about mysql and it looked very tedious if I was going
> to have to do that for all 53 channels that myth didn't find.
>
> And before you ask, I did uncheck the "free to air channels only" box in
> the mythtv-setup before the scan.
>
> Dylan


Wiki entry of Jason Beck's guide-
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Adding_QAM_Channels_For_HDTV_Tuner_Cards

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Steve
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