[mythtv-users] Tuning QAM for Charter Cable with HD3000

jborn at charter.net jborn at charter.net
Sun Mar 12 02:36:40 UTC 2006


I'm very lost with how to do this.  I've run the following and created a channels.conf file:
atscscan -A 2 -vvv atsc/us-Cable-EIA-542-IRC-center_frequencies-QAM256 > channels-EIA-542-IRC.conf

This worked with 2 other frequiencies tables found in the atsc folder.

So now I have 3 channels.conf with three different sets of data but all follow a common theme.  Multiply listings of [0001] - [000a].  Here is an example:

[0001]:609000000:QAM_256:0:2049:1
[0003]:609000000:QAM_256:0:2113:3
[0002]:609000000:QAM_256:0:2177:2
[0001]:657000000:QAM_256:0:2049:1
[0003]:657000000:QAM_256:0:2113:3
[0002]:657000000:QAM_256:0:2177:2
[0001]:663000000:QAM_256:0:2049:1
[0002]:663000000:QAM_256:0:2113:2
[0004]:663000000:QAM_256:0:2177:4
[0002]:669000000:QAM_256:0:2049:2
[0004]:669000000:QAM_256:0:2113:4
[0001]:669000000:QAM_256:0:2177:1
[0001]:675000000:QAM_256:0:2177:1
[0005]:675000000:QAM_256:0:2241:5
[0008]:675000000:QAM_256:0:2049:8
[0001]:717000000:QAM_256:17:20:1
[0036]:723000000:QAM_256:0:0:54
[0005]:723000000:QAM_256:81:84:5
[000a]:723000000:QAM_256:161:164:10
[0004]:723000000:QAM_256:65:68:4
[0002]:723000000:QAM_256:33:36:2
[0008]:723000000:QAM_256:129:132:8
[0006]:723000000:QAM_256:97:100:6
[0001]:723000000:QAM_256:17:20:1
[0003]:723000000:QAM_256:49:52:3
[0009]:723000000:QAM_256:145:148:9
[0007]:723000000:QAM_256:113:116:7
[0002]:729000000:QAM_256:33:36:2
[0001]:729000000:QAM_256:17:20:1
[000a]:729000000:QAM_256:161:164:10
[0009]:729000000:QAM_256:145:148:9
[0003]:729000000:QAM_256:49:52:3
[0008]:729000000:QAM_256:129:132:8
[0004]:729000000:QAM_256:65:68:4
[0007]:729000000:QAM_256:113:116:7
[0007]:735000000:QAM_256:113:116:7
[000a]:735000000:QAM_256:161:164:10
[0003]:741000000:QAM_256:0:0:3
[0001]:741000000:QAM_256:0:2113:1

Is this right?

I've then tried:

azap -c ./channels.conf -r [0001]

then tried cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 | mplayer with no luck.

Then I found I site saying to run 
dvbtraffic which gave me this output and confused me even more:
-PID--FREQ-----BANDWIDTH-BANDWIDTH-
0000     3 p/s     0 kb/s     5 kbit
0020    19 p/s     3 kb/s    29 kbit
0021    15 p/s     2 kb/s    23 kbit
0022    19 p/s     3 kb/s    29 kbit
0420    15 p/s     2 kb/s    23 kbit
0421    15 p/s     2 kb/s    23 kbit
0422    15 p/s     2 kb/s    23 kbit
0800  3332 p/s   611 kb/s  5011 kbit
0801    89 p/s    16 kb/s   134 kbit
0802    88 p/s    16 kb/s   133 kbit
0840  2059 p/s   378 kb/s  3098 kbit
0841    88 p/s    16 kb/s   133 kbit
0842    68 p/s    12 kb/s   103 kbit
0880  1495 p/s   274 kb/s  2248 kbit
0881   132 p/s    24 kb/s   199 kbit
0882    66 p/s    12 kb/s   100 kbit
1fff 18273 p/s  3354 kb/s 27483 kbit
2000 25804 p/s  4737 kb/s 38809 kbit
-PID--FREQ-----BANDWIDTH-BANDWIDTH-

I really don't know what to do next.  Can someone shed some light on this for me?

Thanks


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