[mythtv-users] ATSC Channel.conf

[Michael Haan]

On 12/20/05, Michael Haan <michael.haan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/20/05, Michael Haan <michael.haan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 12/20/05, David Ellis <david at ellisonline.ca > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Norm,
> > >
> > > Like yourself I have both a Rogers Digital TV Box, Rogers Analog
> > > (channels
> > > 1-80 or so), and recently Rogers Digital over QAM 256.
> > >
> > > With a HD3000 you can receive about 40 or so Digital TV stations that
> > > are
> > > transmitted unencrypted. I do this to receive channels 102 through
> > > about 130
> > > or so, plus some sports net channels. No HD stations are broadcast in
> > > the
> > > clear.
> > >
> > > As for a digital cable box, it's not "useless for Myth" I feed it into
> > > a PVR
> > > 250 card using SVideo, and use an IR Blaster to control the channel.
> > >
> > > David
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> > > [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Mlists
> > > Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 2:44 PM
> > > To: Discussion about mythtv; R. Geoffrey Newbury
> > > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] ATSC Channel.conf
> > >
> > > On Tue, 2005-20-12 at 10:34 -0500, R. Geoffrey Newbury wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:31:24 -0500, Michael Haan wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > Trying to find-out how I discover and import the list of
> > > available QAM
> > > > > > channels for use with my HD3000, in my area.  Can't seem to find
> > > a
> > > > > > decent tutorial, or the necessary resources.
> > > > >
> > > > > There are recent emails about that here. You can scan using
> > > mythtvsetup.
> > > > > Make sure that mythbackend has stopped first.
> > > >
> > > > Using an HD3000 to receive QAM broadcasts in myth requires some
> > > hands-on
> > > > work *after* doing a scan. The HD card + mythtv combo does not
> > > populate
> > > > the mysql database with the correct entries (at least not yet..)
> > > >
> > > > Browse to:
> > >
> > > I currently have an analog card to pick up my Rogers cable channels
> > > but
> > > are you telling me that with a DVB-T card I can get the digital
> > > channels?  I have a digital box but its useless with Mythtv.  The
> > > analog
> > > signal looks crappy so if I can get the digital signal, that would be
> > > awesome.
> > >
> > > Norm
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > >
> > >
> >
> > Ok, I'm making some progress on this, but *wow*, this shouldn't be this
> > hard.  Not to discourage new folks - it's not crazy hard, just seems like we
> > could do a better job of centralizing info and automating processes....  I
> > know, I know, I'm welcome to do it.  Wish I understood better what I'm
> > doing, then maybe I would....
>
>
>
> To all, FWIW, Geoffrey's post above has been very useful.  One issue I
> have is that I found that ESPNHD was unencrypted (when scanning under
> windows), but it doesn't seem to have shown-up under this method.  Also,
> there are several channels which are missing an identifier.  Anyonw know why
> these two situations would arise?
>


Just to follow-up, the channels missing the first field were some of these
other channels - ESPNHD, Discovery HD, etc.
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