[mythtv-users] HDTV: channel num versus program id

[David George]

On 7/18/2004 8:15 PM, John Patrick Poet wrote:

> I have been using a pcHDTV HD-2000 card with Myth for seven months.  
> It works extremely well.

I received mine last fall some time (Sep maybe?), but have only recently 
had time to start working on it.

> A few months ago, my local WB & UPN stations gave up some of their 
> digital bandwidth to USDTV (an over-the-air "cable" company").  When 
> this happened, I suddenly could no longer tune in those channels using 
> my HD-2000 card.

[snip - useful info about setup]

> Myth keys off of the "program ids", not the subchannel numbers.  To 
> fix the problem, all I had to do was change the channel configs from 
> 19-1 and 45-1, to 19-2 and 45-2.  The only trick was figuring out that 
> the content I wanted was on the "-2" instead of "-1".

Thanks, I thought I was going crazy.  One of my local stations here 
sends HD content on 47-1 and the weather radar w/o audio on 47-2.  
Whenever I tried to record HD content I got the weather radar.  I 
decided after not too long to try flipping them so the radar is on 47-1 
and the HD content is on 47-2 and now I get the content correctly.  I 
never troubleshot it to find out what exactly was wrong, but this could 
explain it.

Thanks,
David