[mythtv-users] Cable Co. QAM via pcHDTV HD3000 vs. STB and Firewire

[Byron Poland]

On Apr 10, 2005 5:13 PM, sean darcy <seandarcy2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 9, 2005 12:05 AM, Byron Poland <wpoland at gmail.com> wrote:
> ......................................................................
> >   In looking for channels, I did the tedious
> > searching with dvbstream, and spliting up the stream with dtvstream
> > ................
> 
> I'm trying to do the same thing - with cablevision. Could you describe
> how you did this? Or point me to a link?  I'm finding nada.
> 
> thanks
> 
> sean
> 

Hi.

First you need to know the freq for QAM  best way to find these is wth
the channels.conf for qam floating around, I guess I'll try and attach
it here.

In there you will see the freqs.

to record a stream I use the following command which  found over at
the pchdtv forums I believe:

$ dvbstream -v -qam 256 -f 759000000 -c 0 -o -n 15 8192 > 118.ts

the -f 759000000 is the freq, so change this to correspond to the next
channel.  (I think they are 6000000 apart, so just add or subtract 6
from the 759 to get the next channel)

then:

$ dtvstream -i 118.ts -o 118-1.ts -R

dtvstream will list the sub streams and prompt you for a stream ID.

also you can use mplayer to view:  $ mplayer -tsprog  # 118.ts  where
# is the stream number.  to see the available streams, just do this:

$ dtvstream -i 118.ts -q

hope that helps.

getting them into mythtv is another issue, as channel scanning didn't
work for me.  there is a tread about tuning QAM subchannels in the
archive that has some insight into that.  Also check out the pchdtv
forums.

Good luck.
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