[mythtv-users] MythTV and Comcast (SF Bay Area) transition to digital

[Dennis Lou]

Waitasec, if he's using an analog card connected to a DTA, then why
are people worried about "figuring out what channum is 84#2, etc..."?

If someone's seeing channums like "84#2", then they must be using a
clearQAM card/device.

-Dennis

--- On Tue, 5/5/09, Brad Fuller <bradallenfuller at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Brad Fuller <bradallenfuller at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and Comcast (SF Bay Area) transition to  digital
> To: dlou99 at yahoo.com, "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2009, 1:52 PM
> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Dennis Lou
> <dlou99 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > From: Clay <nt4usb at yahoo.com>
> > >> How do I figure out the mapping between the
> channum and
> > >> xmltvid?
> > >
> > >That's the easy part. Tough part is figuring
> out what channum is 84#2,
> > etc...
> > >Most any online TV guide (zap2it, tvguide,
> schedules direct, etc.)
> > >will show you the xmltvid when you mouseover a
> program or channel.
> >
> > I wrote a program that will figure out what channum is
> 84#2, etc.
> >
> > I surmise from the subject that since are in the SF
> Bay Area, you live
> > in an area where Comcast is rolling out DTA's
> (Pace DC50X,
> > Motorola, Thomson, etc) and they send the virtual
> channel map in-band
> > now. I wrote a program that will download that virtual
> channel map.
> > Furthermore, you can tweak the output of my program to
> set the
> > channel's freqid to the virtual channel from the
> map.  I
> > believe mythfilldatabase can match channels based on
> freqid,
> > so that means you don't need to mess with xmltvid
> any more.
> 
> 
> 
> Is this the program that uses dvb tools? If so, how could
> it work if the OP
> is using just the DTAs? (e.g., connected to a PVR-250)
> 
> 
> -- 
> Brad Fuller