[mythtv-users] Jason Beck's QAM guide Now on the Wiki

[Steven Adeff]

On 2/3/06, Daniel Walton <dwalton at cisco.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Steven Adeff wrote:
> > I've finished my initial writeup of Jason Beck's guide to the Wiki, it
> > can be found at:
> > http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Adding_QAM_Channels_For_HDTV_Tuner_Cards
> >
> > I'd appreciate it if everyone that has used it, along with Jason
> > himself to go over it and fix things up, etc. Before making any
> > drastic changes though, please bring them up in the discussion area
> > for the article and give it at least a day for people to respond.
> >
> > Thanks for the help everyone!
>
>
> I started using this last night to setup my Air2PC card.  From my home directory
> I was trying to do
>
> dvb-apps/util/scan/atscscan atsc/us-Cable-HRC-center-frequencies-QAM256
>
> but atscscan didn't like that because the atsc directory wansn't in my home
> directory.  I changed the wiki to say:
>
>   cd dvb-apps/util/scan
>   ./atscscan atsc/us-Cable-HRC-center-frequencies-QAM256

thanks for making the change. Did your scan work? were you able to
verify the channels via what I wrote? just trying to verify it works
for cards other than the one I have.

> Questions about setting up QAM:
>
> - I only have one HD tuner and I have already set it up for recording OTA and I
> have tried before to setup QAM.  The result is that I have a huge dtv_multiplex
> table with lots of old info.  Will it hose my two analog tuners (PVR-150s) if I
> delete everything in the dtv_multiplex table?  I want to have a fresh start
> before trying to get QAM working this time.