Re: [linux-dvb] me-tv doesn't accept its own channel file

[Jonathan Coles <jcoles0727@rogers.com>]

Steven Toth wrote:
> Jonathan Coles wrote:
>> me-tv scans ATSC channels on my HVR-950Q and creates a channels.conf 
>> file. The file has channel entries, even though the Channel Scan 
>> window reports nothing but "Failed to tune" messages. But me-tv 
>> cannot use its own file. It complains, "There's an invalid channel 
>> record in the channels.conf file." Oh, come on! Was this application 
>> tested even once?
>>
>> My file contains the following:
>>
>> CKXTDT\x10:509028615:8VSB:65:67:2
>> CKXT:509028615:8VSB:81:83:3
>> HDTV RADIO-CANADA OTTAWA:521028615:8VSB:49:52:11
>> HDTV CBC OTTAWA:539028615:8VSB:49:52:10
>>
>> (I live in Canada. Our TV stations have until 2011 to go digital and 
>> they are moving slowly.)
>>
>> A possible problem is the strange 2-byte character following "CKXTDT" 
>> in the first line, hex 0810. Removing this line did not make the file 
>> acceptable to me-tv.
>>
>> Does anyone have experience with this glitch?
>
> Looks like you have a weird control char on the first line.
>
> Try removing this.
>
> Also use 'azap -r CKTX' to see if you get lock.
>
> - Steve
>
This is a me-tv problem. Using the same channels file, I can watch TV 
using gxine. azap returns
"video pid 0x0051, audio pid 0x0053" and then repeats the line

status 1f | signal 0078 | snr 0073 | ber 000000ff | unc 000000ff | 
FE_HAS_LOCK

Thanks for your help.


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