[mythtv-users] MythTV and Comcast (SF Bay Area) transition to digital

[Brad Fuller]

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Dennis Lou <dlou99 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> From: Clay <nt4usb at yahoo.com>
> >> How do I figure out the mapping between the channum and
> >> xmltvid?
> >
> >That's the easy part. Tough part is figuring out what channum is 84#2,
> etc...
> >Most any online TV guide (zap2it, tvguide, schedules direct, etc.)
> >will show you the xmltvid when you mouseover a program or channel.
>
> I wrote a program that will figure out what channum is 84#2, etc.
>
> I surmise from the subject that since are in the SF Bay Area, you live
> in an area where Comcast is rolling out DTA's (Pace DC50X,
> Motorola, Thomson, etc) and they send the virtual channel map in-band
> now. I wrote a program that will download that virtual channel map.
> Furthermore, you can tweak the output of my program to set the
> channel's freqid to the virtual channel from the map.  I
> believe mythfilldatabase can match channels based on freqid,
> so that means you don't need to mess with xmltvid any more.



Is this the program that uses dvb tools? If so, how could it work if the OP
is using just the DTAs? (e.g., connected to a PVR-250)


-- 
Brad Fuller
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