[mythtv-users] QAM64 + TimeWarner SoCal

[Rob]

I don't understand the problem?  You say you found 9 channels, which are
your OTA networks, plus some HD "cable" ones.  That's most likely all you're
ever going to get digitally.  The rest are probably encrypted.   The HD
"cable" channels will probably get encrypted too at some point.

The same goes for your cable box and firewire.  Myth can't speak 5c
encryption, so when the cable company encrypts a channel, you won't be able
to record it.  Again, it's not uncommon for some cable companies to "forget"
to enable encryption, but don't count on it working.

-- Rob 



-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Scott Clark
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 5:13 AM
To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
Subject: [mythtv-users] QAM64 + TimeWarner SoCal

I have a pcHD-3000 tuner card hooked up directly to the digital cable feed.

With mythtv-setup I am unable to get signal on anything other than
QAM64(I get 9 channels which I assume are my basic CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX,
etc. plus a few misc. HD channels such as TNT or whatever)

I've seen very little about QAM64 and US-cable on this mailing list
and via google so I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong and I
should be using QAM256. If anyone has QAM64 with us-cable did you use
a custom frequency table with dvb-tools(atscscan) or just edited your
database manually with what mythtv-setup provided. I get channels like
106#1, 106#2, etc. and those are my 9 signals I got via the QAM64
scan.

Sorry if this message didn't seem to have a point or made little
sense, I'm tired and I'm just looking for some guidance to get me
going in the right direction.

Also -- with regards to Firewire, I have a second recording source and
I can control it perfectly with the sa3250ch channel changer. I can
grab the basic HDTV channels over firewire, but I run into one
problem. Sometimes, and I don't know what causes the fix, I have to
reload the modules, reset the STB, or a combination of the two in who
knows what order to get it working properly again. Has anyone had any
similar problems with the firewire being somewhat flaky?

Thanks a lot,

Scott
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