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Author:  bruce_s01 [ Mon Sep 10, 2007 7:48 am ]
Post subject:  Non US grabbers for 5F27 seem to be missing
After setting up a new old box* to try out the latest version.
I installed 5F27 to see what improvements there were. After passing the initial manual install (requiring lilo to be installed as described here), I went into mythtv-setup, the General and Card Setup went OK (noticed the myth2ipod and transcode to XViD BTW).
Going to Video Sources there appeared a fair delay before the Video Source creation screen came up (but then, this could be due to the speed of the machine). I noticed that only options available for a grabber were the Schedules Direct, None and EIT, none of which were suitable.

Thankfully this was not my main box, which probably would have given me some problems. :)

It might be worthwhile putting a notice up for non US users.

*Dual PIII 500MHz, 80Gb HDD, FX5500 Videocard, WinTV Theatre and SB AWE64 Gold.

Bruce S.
Author:  cecil [ Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:23 am ]
Post subject: 
The grabbers aren't missing. Something is slowing one or more of the grabbers. Run:
Code:
tv_find_grabbers
This will return an output from all the grabbers. If you take a look at /usr/bin, you'll see a few NOtv_grabber.... These were slow, no longer in use, so I disabled them out the box. Whichever grabber you don't want, you can disable.
Author:  bruce_s01 [ Mon Sep 10, 2007 12:43 pm ]
Post subject: 
Thanks.
I'm currently working through them now

To help others I wrote a (very) quick and dirty script to help:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
echo Disabling "$1" grabber.
mv "$1" "NO$1"

I created it in /usr/bin with:
Code:
nano grab_disable
chmod +x grab_disable
and tested it with:
Code:
ls -l grab_test
touch grab_test
./grab_disable grab_test
 ls -l NO*


Bruce S.
Author:  tophee [ Mon Sep 10, 2007 12:58 pm ]
Post subject: 
On my test machine all the grabbers appeared to be listed. Though I tend to use EIT, so not tested them....
Author:  bruce_s01 [ Mon Sep 10, 2007 2:54 pm ]
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After disabling the uk_bleb grabber I carried out these:
Code:
root@homenet-pvr1:/usr/bin# ./grab_disable tv_grab_br_net
Disabling tv_grab_br_net grabber.
root@homenet-pvr1:/usr/bin# ./grab_disable tv_grab_jp
Disabling tv_grab_jp grabber.
root@homenet-pvr1:/usr/bin# ./grab_disable tv_grab_re
Disabling tv_grab_re grabber.
root@homenet-pvr1:/usr/bin# ./grab_disable tv_grab_es_laguiatv
Disabling tv_grab_es_laguiatv grabber.
root@homenet-pvr1:/usr/bin# ./grab_disable tv_grab_ch_bluewin
Disabling tv_grab_ch_bluewin grabber.
root@homenet-pvr1:/usr/bin# ./grab_disable tv_grab_se_swedb
Disabling tv_grab_se_swedb grabber.

As these appeared to take the most time to appear when running tv_find_grabbers.
The rest of the grabbers now appeared in video sources. Of course, anyone following this who requires the above, could choose another one (or two) that is not required.

Hope this helps.
Bruce S.
Author:  Kirk [ Mon Sep 10, 2007 6:19 pm ]
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Those having difficulty with the tv_grab_au grabber not showing up in mythtv-setup should refer to this thread.

http://www.mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=97671
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