[mythtv-users] Issues recording

[Harry Devine]

R. G. Newbury wrote:
> Roger Heflin wrote:
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>> Harry Devine wrote:
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>> I though it was supposed to be able to work that way ie with NTSC on analog,
>> and ATSC on DVB.   Just you aren't going to be able to record on both at the
>> same time.
>>
>> I would suggest trying to setup two different listing so that the correct
>> channels are in the correct place, I seem to remember before I did mine that
>> way it would attempt to tune analog's on the digital card, and digital channels
>> on the analog card and did not work very well.
>>
>> I know a number of people use 2 lineups for exactly this reason.
>>
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> You need at least 2 and possibly 3 lineups.
> You need a lineup for analog cable  -> /dev/video  channels 2-99
> You need a lineup for unencrypted digital channels...you refer to these 
> as OTA but I think you are getting these on the cable, they just 
> represent the channels you could get OTA and which Comcast must provide.
>
> Finally, you probably need a lineup for the encrypted channels which you 
> get through the STB and firewire (if you do that).
>
> You can test the first 2 lineups against a digital TV by noting the 
> tuner setup it requires. Of course, the analog lineup will play on an 
> analog TV.
>
> And remember that although you *can* set up a PChd5000 to do both 
> digital and analog, it can only do one of those at a time, so scheduling 
> can be difficult. You have to provide quite different priority levels to 
> make that work and it may not be worth the problem.
>
> Geoff
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OK, I'd like to report that I've made some progress.  I created a 2nd 
lineup via SchedulesDirect (called Cable by them) which has all of my 
regular cable stations (2->99).  I then deleted all of my cards 
(pcHD5500 & Firewire) and added the pcHD5500 back in for now, setting up 
the card to scan for channels on the higher QAM-256 frequency for DVB 
and associating the CableDigital lineup with it, and for the analog 
portion of the card, I set the new lineup to it and did "Fetch channels 
from listing source" as per the Wiki.  I then went thru via the channel 
editor and deleted UNKNOWN???#? channels that I know for certain I don't 
have or care about.

So now when I go into Watch TV, I can tune the analog channels as well 
as the HD ones with these minor issues that I hope you guys can clear up 
for me:

1) Some of my HD channels must have been had their streams moved around 
by Comcast because when I edited them in the Channel Editor, they didn't 
match up (I had created a spreadsheet with the XMLTV IDs of the channels 
I got and the original stream, i.e. 113#2).  So, I went back in to the 
Channel Editor and fixed them, and re-ran mythfilldatabase.  Now the 
listings for several channels are not write.  Here's an example:  
channel 231 for me is the HD ABC station and channel 248 is the NBC 
Local weather station.  These were swapped initially, but after fixing 
them, I can tune to channel 231 and see ABC, but the listings in Mythweb 
show the ABC programming on channel 248 and the Weather programming on 
231.  Make sense?

2)  When I tune to one of the analog stations, I get picture but no 
sound.  I have the sound dongle from the pcHD5500 card plugged into my 
motherboard's input jack.  The audio device is set to /dev/dsp for the 
Analog portion of the card.  Why won't this work properly?

3) I'm sure this is an LIRC issue, but when I was in Watching TV, if I 
enter Menu, I'm expecting it to bring up the program guide.  That's in 
my .lircrc file, but when I do this, nothing happens.  This isn't a 
major issue for me, as I plan on scheduling recordings via Mythweb.  I 
will never use the Live TV function.

Thanks for the help!
Harry