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Lost channels with Intrepid upgrade

Asked by Ian M. Stewart

I have the same problem under Ubuntu and wonder why the good support in 0.5 has been removed from 0.7.6 version?
Is there a chance to get good support back into new versions?

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Ian M. Stewart (ims) said : 		#1

Sorry, I should have included the following information:

I'm now using Me TV 0.7.6, as came with the Intrepid upgrade.
The TV card is a Hauppauge Nova-T PCI (WinTV-2000)
this shows up in Me-tv as Conexant CX22702 DVB-T

I hope that helps?

Thanks,
Ian

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Best Michael Lamothe (lamothe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#2

This page disagrees with your statement about which Me TV version is included in Intrepid, http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=me-tv&searchon=names&suite=intrepid&section=all

So you are on 0.7.6 that you've installed either from my PPA (most likely) or built from source (less likely).

The scanner in 0.7.* is not up to scratch for a few countries because of the lack of support for the NIT which we don't need to use here in Australia. In 0.7 there is no channels.conf, channels are held in a SQLite database at ~/.me-tv/me-tv.db. You can:

1. Write a SQL script to import your channels.conf into the database
2. Write an NIT parser and send it to me
3. Go back to 0.5 in Intrepid

Thanks,

Michael

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Ian M. Stewart (ims) said : 		#3

Thanks Michael Lamothe, that solved my question.

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Ian M. Stewart (ims) said : 		#4

Thank you Michael,

I only upgraded to Intrepid on Saturday, and immediately restored connections to the various repositories and backports etc. It must be that that updated your application for me. I wouldn't know where to start to build from source. I had wondered if the channels.conf had been dropped, but I didn't dig deeply enough in the Announcements to see where.

I have no expertise in SQL, and don't know what an NIT parser is, so I will have to adopt option 3. Thanks very much for all your hard work on this application, and enabling us to watch TV on our Ubuntu! It is very much appreciated here, and I look forward to updating to the new version when the scanner has been doctored.

Best wishes for 2009!

Ian

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pixotec (ralf-eichinger-pixotec) said : 		#5

I have the same problem under Ubuntu and wonder why the good support in 0.5 has been removed from 0.7.6 version?
Is there a chance to get good support back into new versions?

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pixotec (ralf-eichinger-pixotec) said : 		#6

You wrote "because of the lack of support for the NIT".
Why not using the old NIT parser?
And is there documentation about what a NIT is and how to write one?

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Michael Lamothe (lamothe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#7

Hi Ian,

In the latest version there is now a fourth option. You can now import a channels.conf that can be generated from `scan`.

pixotec, the Me TV 0.5.X scanner was based on the `scan` application from the dvb-apps/utils guys. That scanner had many issues that caused Me TV to produce errors so I removed it. I replaced it with my own scanner but it only supports features that I can test.

I invite you to try and implement an NIT parser yourself. If you email me then I can send you the documentation. Are you able to program in C++? Or maybe now that you can import a channels.conf you don't need it.

Thanks,

Michael

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Michael Lamothe (lamothe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#8

Now here's the funny thing, yesterday someone implemented an NIT parser for Me TV so that DVB-S can work properly. You should see this in the next version. If you would like to try it out then you can build Florian's branch, https://code.launchpad.net/~florian-will/me-tv/dvb-s.

Thanks,

Michael

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pixotec (ralf-eichinger-pixotec) said : 		#9

I am using Me TV for DVB-T (cable TV). Does the code work for this part of scanning, too?
I am sorry that I only can code in Java... ;-) ...

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Michael Lamothe (lamothe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#10

Yes, it does.