[mythtv-users] Any easy way to set up local HD channels via QAM?

Thomas Mashos tgm4883 at gmail.com
Fri Sep 10 16:03:36 UTC 2010


On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 8:11 AM, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:

> On 09/10/2010 12:18 AM, Bob wrote:
>
>> Seth Heckard wrote:
>>
>>> If I scan for channels via myth-setup, I get about 200 channels with
>>> nothing to distinguish them other than a channel number. Trying to
>>> individually go through the channels in Live TV gives about 40 that
>>> tune, but it's a frustrating process because the frontend crashes
>>> about every other channel (I guess because most are encrypted?)
>>> However, through that I found all the networks but Fox.
>>>
>>>  My process is to use the "scan" program from linux-dvb-utils. Next, I
>> have a perl script that will record 5 to 10 seconds from every channel
>> and determine the encryption status using ffmpeg. After that, I use
>> mplayer to determine what channel it is. Then I create a CSV file and
>> run one last perl script that goes into the database and configures the
>> channel names, numbers, XML ID, etc.
>>
>> I can share some of this if you are interested.
>>
>
>
> Since there is no actual 'easy' way of finding and naming channels, these
> scripts sound like a great step forward. Thanks for offering to share.
>
> There is a wiki page here:
>
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Adding_Digital_Cable_Channels_%28For_ATSC/QAM_Tuner_Cards_--_USA/Canada%29
>
> which is now quite likely out of date. It would be great if you would
> either add a description of your process (and the scripts) to that page, or
> add a link to a new page which sets out your process. (Use a similar name,
> or add 'revised' and a date).
>
>
> Geoff
>
>
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>

Wouldn't this help in some situations?

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Scte65scan

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