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