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

[Ian Forde]

On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 12:20 -0500, Daniel Walton wrote:
> I converted it to perl and combined it with my original script. I was like the
> other folks in that I had problems using 'time' with mplayer and got better
> results by grepping through the mplayer output to see if it found video.
> 
> I would post my script except it has the nasty malloc problem after 60 scans.
> If I can figure out how to fix that I will post it though.
> 
> But thanks for the script, it gave me a good starting point :)

I went in a different direction.  I ended up saving all of the mpg
files.  This way I could look at the filesizes and drop all of the ones
that were too small.  Then of the ones with fairly decent sizes I could
check them with mplayer.

An idea along this front would probably be for people doing QAM with
their HD-3000 cards to post their (WORKING) channels.conf files, along
with their zipcodes and cable systems that they're using...

Is the channel scanner within Myth slated to be fully operational
(meaning - no atscscan and no azap scans) before or after the 0.19
release?  Because at this point, it's a real PITA to get working... ;(
I had it working last year, but not to the point that I could record any
programs reliably without SERIOUS artifacts and dropouts...

	-Ian