On Jan 14, 2008 5:23 PM, Craig Courtney <<a href="mailto:craig@dawnsedge.com">craig@dawnsedge.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d"><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/14/08, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:lemongecko@gmail.com" target="_blank">lemongecko@gmail.com</a></b> <<a href="mailto:lemongecko@gmail.com" target="_blank">
lemongecko@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br><div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> Third question. Should I try scanning with something other than QAM-256?<br><br>Mmm, no. TW definitely uses QAM-256.
<br></blockquote></div><br></div>I can't get any QAM channels off of TW in my area. I do remember reading somewhere that they where moving to SDV.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div></div>Just to chime in. I have Wide Open West and I had such a hard time tuning QAM for a long, long time. Meaning the past year. Don't even try to manually tune your QAM channels if you don't know what you are doing. It will drive you batty. I spent 40 hours at least trying to tune into my QAM channels with eventual success using the manual method on the wiki.
<br><br>UPGRADE to SVN if you really want to tune in QAM with your HDHomerun. I set this up for a friend of mine and it was soooo much easier. The 0.21 svn trunk version (latest on atrpms-bleeding for fedora 8 is 15333 as of this post) can tune into QAM via HDHomerun using the built in scanner in mythtv-setup. On
W.O.W. it tuned a bunch of "crap" in along with the standard working channels, but you can then modify the channel table manually to get your channels weeded out and setup. This was the easiest for me. The cable companies make it very hard to tune in their channels, because they don't stick to the standards (on purpose? or because they're lazy?)
<br><br>I don't recommend using your main 'production' backend, but a standalone test system, if you are uncomfortable with SVN and/or database queries. This way you can delete your database over and over until you get it just right. I used my laptop until I got it right, then transferred the new channels and dtv_multiplex records to my production server (or duplicated the process).
<br><br>The devs are making great stuff on the QAM tuning, but they simply can't account for bad design on the service provider side. Hope this works for you. QAM is the best part of myth now that I have it setup. Can't beat it. If you need help, keep posting and we'll assist.
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Chris Everest<br>