[mythtv-users] announce: script for locating QAM channels

[Steven Adeff]

On 3/5/06, Peter Watkins <peterw at tux.org> wrote:
> All,
>
> I've been transitioning from an all-Hauppauge PVR-x50 0.18.1 system to a
> 0.19 system with an HD3000 card that I hoped to use for QAM HDTV.
>
> The wiki page about adding QAM channels at
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Adding_QAM_Channels_For_HDTV_Tuner_Cards
> has been very helpful, but the azap/mplayer steps seemed like a bunch of
> work. To make things easier, I've cobbled together a script to drive all
> the tasks involved in finding channels, testing them, and creating a new
> channels.conf file.
>
> I've personally bailed on QAM for my setup b/c my QAM reception is poor
> (though OTA/ATSC is pretty good). But I thought I'd put the script out
> for others' use. Comments are welcome.
>
> http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#qamscan
>
> -Peter

Peter, I'm getting this error:

./qamscan.sh: line 67: 16639 Terminated
${HERE}/dvb-apps/util/szap/azap -a $device -r "$name"

./qamscan.sh: line 67: 17378 Killed                  mplayer -v
-nosound /dev/dvb/adapter${device}/dvr0 >${tmpdir}/mplayer.out


-- 
Steve
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