[mythtv-users] DVB-S: lost ability to record multiple channels

Stefan G. Weichinger lists at xunil.at
Fri Sep 4 16:29:34 UTC 2009


Nick Morrott schrieb:

> Running the grabber manually (which is what I still do when mixing EIT
> and XMLTV) still requires the channels in the MythTV database to have
> XMLTV IDs assigned to them.

I had those IDs in there.

>> I still haven't fully understood the "--update" option for
>>  mythfilldatabase, btw.
> 
> When you have configured your channels with XMLTV IDs, you can run
> mythfilldatabase --update to update listings data and not affect your
> channel configuration. It is also how I run MFDB manually.

Wouldn't that solve the issue??

configure mythtv with eit-only, run grabber externally and pipe the xml
into the database with "--update" ??

>>  I somehow assumed such conflicts triggered, yes ... especially when
>>  editing the channels I noticed many duplicates etc.
> 
> I haven't manually configured an XMLTV grabber within MythTV for a
> long time, but it always used to create new channel entries for each
> XMLTV channel you configure.

oh ...

> <cut>
> 
>>  btw I still have the issue that tv_grab_eu_epgdata doesn't deliver
>>  correct output ... as mentioned in another thread here I reported a bug
>>  to gentoo.org already.
> 
> Check for differences in the Perl libraries the grabber uses,
> especially libwwwperl. This has caused a problem with another grabber
> recently. Also, as this is a paid service you could contact epgdata
> directly to see whether there is an ongoing issue with the service.

will check that, yes.

> <cut>
> 
>>  ps: is there a way to "speed up" getting eit-data in or is that just a
>>  question of "just wait for it" ?
> 
> I always ensure that only the channels I want EIT listings for are
> visible in MythTV, as this will restrict EIT scanning to their
> multiplexes. Other than that, it's really a case of waiting - with
> active EIT scanning it's going on in the background so you'll get it
> when it's received.

no big problem, thanks ...

Stefan


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