me-tv doesn't accept its own channel file

me-tv scans ATSC channels on my HVR-950Q and creates a channels.conf file. The file has channel entries, even though the Channel Scan window reports nothing but "Failed to tune" messages. But me-tv cannot use its own file. It complains, "There's an invalid channel record in the channels.conf file." Oh, come on! Was this application tested even once?

My file contains the following:

CKXTDT:509028615:8VSB:65:67:2
CKXT:509028615:8VSB:81:83:3
HDTV RADIO-CANADA OTTAWA:521028615:8VSB:49:52:11
HDTV CBC OTTAWA:539028615:8VSB:49:52:10

(I live in Canada. Our TV stations have until 2011 to go digital and they are moving slowly.)

A possible problem is the strange 2-byte character following "CKXTDT" in the first line, hex 0810. Removing this line did not make the file acceptable to me-tv.

Does anyone have experience with this glitch?

Quoted 14 lines · Jonathan Coles

me-tv scans ATSC channels on my HVR-950Q and creates a channels.conf file. The file has channel entries, even though the Channel Scan window reports nothing but "Failed to tune" messages. But me-tv cannot use its own file. It complains, "There's an invalid channel record in the channels.conf file." Oh, come on! Was this application tested even once?

My file contains the following:

CKXTDT:509028615:8VSB:65:67:2
CKXT:509028615:8VSB:81:83:3
HDTV RADIO-CANADA OTTAWA:521028615:8VSB:49:52:11
HDTV CBC OTTAWA:539028615:8VSB:49:52:10

Quoted 8 lines

(I live in Canada. Our TV stations have until 2011 to go digital and they are moving slowly.)

A possible problem is the strange 2-byte character following "CKXTDT" in the first line, hex 0810. Removing this line did not make the file acceptable to me-tv.

Does anyone have experience with this glitch?

Looks like you have a weird control char on the first line.

Try removing this.

Also use 'azap -r CKTX' to see if you get lock.

- Steve