[mythtv-users] Can't simultaneously record two programs with 3 (or 4) available tuners v2

[Leif Pihl]

On Oct 15, 2013, at 10:59 PM, Eric Sharkey wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Leif Pihl <leif at pihl.us> wrote:
>> Can you describe to me the steps that you think I've missed?
> 
> If you're not sure if you've done it or not, then you haven't done it.
> 
> A clear-QAM tuner on cable is probably the most difficult type of
> tuner to configure.  Getting it set up right is really quite painful,
> and maintaining it is nearly as bad.
> 
> There's some rather dated information about the process here:
> 
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Adding_QAM_Channels_For_HDTV_Tuner_Cards
> 
> Actually, looking that page over, most of it is *so* dated it's
> probably pretty much useless.  What's important is that you do the
> channel scan in mythtv-setup, and then for each channel discovered
> (that you care about) you make sure to set the correct virtual channel
> number, callsign, and xmltvid.  The simplest way to do this is to go
> through each discovered channel using LiveTV in the MythTV frontend,
> figure out what channel you're actually watching, then press "e" and
> edit the channel details, then repeat with the next channel, until all
> channels are defined.


Yes, we DID do the above.
Good night, 

LP


> 
> Given that Comcast is busy encrypting channels, if you do manage to
> get this set up and working, it's likely to not be working for long.
> 
> Cable Card tuners don't need any of this since they can read the same
> channel mapping table sent to cable set top boxes and mythtv can
> control them by just sending the virtual channel number.
> 
> Eric
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