Hello,
I just wanted to pass along a lesson I learned form trying to debug a problem I
had with freevo. You all probably already know this, but maybe it could be
captured in the example conf file.
I had used a script that generated my channel list to put into my
local_conf.py. I downloaded it from somewhere on the net, but I don't remember
where. Anyway, I was having a problem that any channel that had a channel
number less then 10 I could not tune to. If I tried to 'play' that channel it
would bring up the tv view and play what ever the last channel it was tuned to.
After trying many things, I remembered that I read somewhere that mplayer (and
maybe xine too) have trouble with channel numbers that are padded with zeros.
In other words channel '2' should not be listed in the TV_CHANNELS section as
'02'. I changed that and my tuner worked without problem.
Next I noticed that I was having the same problem again, but this time it was
with recording a program. I could not even think of what to try. Finally after
trying some different things I realized that the record server needed to be
stopped, and 'freevo tv_grab' needed to be re-ran before I re-started the
server. I don't understand why this was the case, but this fixed my problem.
I think that it would make sense to include this in the comments section near
the TV_CHANNELS section. Maybe something like this:
If any changes are made to this section, stop all Freevo processes (record
server, et al) and re-run 'freevo tv_grab' before restarting.
Maybe someone who understands why this needed to be done can word smith this a
bit to make it more accurate.
Hope this helps someone from spending hours like I did trying to figure this
one out.
Tom Weichmann
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