[mythtv-users] ClearQAM (Comcast) questions

[Justin Johnson]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Ben Kamen <bkamen at benjammin.net> wrote:
> On 4/12/2010 12:42 PM, Justin Johnson wrote:
>>
>> Speaking from experience here, the 31566 will likely include flags for
>> HD programming, but the 12377 will not. I somehow set my system up  to
>> prefer HD, but I don't completely recall where I did this. Here's my
>> setup:
>> 10--WAND--11278 (Analog and Digital, both share same channel number
>> and XMLTVID to avoid duplicates)
>> 10-1--WAND-HD--30925 (This is digital and is where the HD programs will
>> show)
>>
>> I prefer that it record from the digital feed, since it looks better,
>> so I set up my cards thusly:
>> Analog-priority 0
>> Digital1-priority +1
>> Digital2-priority +1
>>
>> This way, it will record from channel 10, but the digital version (if
>> available) before the analog version. Then I also set up a rule
>> somewhere to add another priority for HD-flagged content, which will
>> then prefer 10-1.
>>
>> Perhaps you could find where this HD priority is, and add a -1
>> priority for that, so it prefers SD on digital.

I forgot to mention scte65scan as well, the -p switch will be most
important, especially if you only get local channels in the clear.