Andrew Herron wrote: > We are testing VDR 1.3.34-1 as part of a Plutohome installation > (www.plutohome.com <http://www.plutohome.com>) in the UK and are having > some problems getting sources.conf & channels.conf populated with the > right DVB-T EPG data. As we are complete novices in respect of VDR > (having previously battled with MythTV inside Pluto... not a pleasant > experience!) we were wondering if someone on this list could give us > some help or point us at the right online docs to get us up to speed. You shouldn't need to update sources.conf for pure DVB-T. I obtained my initial channel.conf file by using the scan tool from the dvb-apps package http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1.0.tar.bz2 It comes with initial tuning data for several UK transmitters, which can be used to generate a VDR channels.conf file automatically, e.g. # scan -o vdr dvb-t/uk-CrystalPalace | tee mychannels.conf This tool is great for vdr-1.2. In vdr-1.3 the program can auto-fill the channel.conf file, but still needs the details of one transmitter to be added manually to act as a seed for the other transmitters (very similar to the inital tuning file used by scan tool). Jon
