[mythtvnz] Manipulating Program Guide Information

[Wade Maxfield]

>On 2/21/06, Steven Ellis <mail_lists@stevencherie.net> wrote:
>>
>>  I have been using the tv_grab_nz_ontv script to get program information,
>>  but it is missing Juice TV and C4. I was looking at switching to the
>>  hairy.geek.nz information but i'd like to prune the feed to just the
>>  channels i'm after. This would be just the terrestial channels in Auckland.
>>
>>  Anyone else tried to do this and can provide any tips?
>
>Just set the channels to be invisible (in mythtv-setup uncheck the
>"visible" option on the channel's page). Alternatively, don't define
>the channels you don't want and run mythfilldatabase with --update so
>it won't create them. You'll get a lot of warnings from
>mythfilldatabase but it should work. Finally you could look for
>something that can parse xml and strip out the unwanted programs.
>
>In my setup I have a TV tuner that gets the FTA channels, a video
>capture card that takes the output of a Sky digital decoder, and a
>DVB-S card that gets the free channels TVNZ broadcast via satellite. I
>use a combination of the first two options I mentioned above:
>The TV tuner only has the channels they receive defined, but I load
>the full EPG file against it with --update.
>The Sky input and the DVB-S card have various channels marked as not
>visible. I load the same file against both of those as well.
>
>Steve

Steve,

I'm assuming that you have the DVB-S card connected to a sky dish. 
If so could I grab a copy of your .szap/channels.conf?

  - Wade