[mythtv-users] mythtv-setup fails to parse channels.conf

Jarod Wilson lists at wilsonet.com
Wed May 9 00:20:05 UTC 2007


On May 08, 2007, at 20:03, Nick Morrott wrote:

> On 08/05/07, Mitko Haralanov <voidtrance at comcast.net> wrote:
>> On Sun, 6 May 2007 11:41:09 -0700
>> Mitko Haralanov <voidtrance at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I am attempting to setup my hdtv3000 card. I am using the stock FC6
>>> x86_64 2.6.20-1.2948.fc6 DVB drivers and I have downloaded the  
>>> hdtv3000
>>> firmware from linuxtv.org
>>>
>>> When I run scandvb, it finds about 40 channels, which it writes  
>>> to the
>>> channels.conf file. When I try to import that in MythTV, it  
>>> failes with
>>> a "Failed to parse: <filename>" error.
>>>
>>> I can't figure out what it doesn't like, so I am asking for some  
>>> help?
>>> I have attached my channels.conf file.
>
> Your channels.conf file seems to have the correct 6 fields for ATSC.
> Is the card being detected correctly/is it configured correctly for
> ATSC in mythtv-setup? Is the channels.conf file readable by the
> mythtv-setup user?

What version of mythtv are we talking about here? There was a fix for  
this that went into 0.20-fixes a bit ago...

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com





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