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

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

[Jonathan Coles]

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?


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

[Steven Toth]

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

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

[Jonathan Coles]

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

[Michael Lamothe]

"Oh, come on! Was this application tested even once?"

Nope, that's why ATSC support has been removed in the newer versions,
there's no one testing it.

If you have an issue with Me TV then you probably should raise that
with upstream.

Thanks,

Michael

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