[mythtv-users] Verifying HD content with a HD-3000

[Joel Turner]

On May 15, 2006, at 5:24 PM, Byron Poland wrote:

> On 5/15/06, Joel Turner <jturner421 at aol.com> wrote:
>> I am curious how one can verify that they have succesfully set up an
>> HD-3000 for HDTV viewing. I currently have an SD setup with the  
>> primary
>> card being a PVR350. I purchased the HD3000 several months back but
>> never got around to setting it up. Last weekend, I succesfuly set  
>> it up
>> according to the Wiki directions for QAM256. To set up my card I  
>> went to
>> Zap-It, configured a digital cable lineup to use for the HD-3000,
>> associated the card with it, created a channels.conf and imported it
>> into Myth. I also changed the entries in the channel table for each
>> entry (mplexid and serviceid) and zeroed out atscsrcid. It is  
>> currently
>> the second tuner in my system. Coming from the wall I have split the
>> cable with one feed to the HD-3000 and the other to my Cable box.  
>> I am
>> using Charter in Madison, WI and was able to receive approximately 30
>> channels unencrypted including all local channels on the HD-3000.
>>
>> Here is where I am confused if I'm actually capturing HDTV content.
>> Charter supplies what they call HDTV capable boxes and have  
>> reserved an
>> upper band of channels on their service for HDTV. For instance Fox  
>> is on
>> channel 8 and channel 757. If I use the HD-3000 as the selected tuner
>> and schedule it to record the show 24 on channel 8, am I capturing HD
>> content as it's broadcast in HD? Is there a way to check the  
>> completed
>> file for information that would confirm that I have? I'm planning on
>> purchasing an LCD shortly and would love to be able to confirm that
>> everything is set up properly.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your responses.
>>
>> --Joel
>>
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>
> While its recording you can check the system status (myth web or on
> the frontend, or watch the log file) to see if it is your HD3000 tuner
> recording or not.  additionally when its done, the size alone of HD
> vs. SD should tell you if its in HD.
>
> in my experience of a backend with both SD and HD tuners, with 6=SD
> and 601=HD,  I had to explicitly select it to record on 601 for it to
> record in HD.
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Perhaps my example was  poor.  I've verified in upcoming recordings  
that it is using tuner 2 (HD3000).  I'm also assuming that the size  
of the recording will be about 6GB per hour if not greater.  As for  
the 6 vs 601 in your example, I have no idea what it's actually  
using.  Charter does not show station identifiers over QAM_256. When  
verifying channels with mplayer I know that it showed content from  
FOX.  I updated from my imported channel.conf the mplexid and  
serviceid to the FOX entry populated by mythfilldatabase when I set  
the zap-it line up to the card in myth-setup.  I assume the end  
result is that what I provided it with the proper settings for tuning  
with the HD3000 and so that it would also have the correct entries  
for grabbing schedule information from zap-it.