[mythtv-users] HDTV reception via Cable

[Christian Burger]

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Message: 18
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 10:14:12 -0500
From: "R. G. Newbury" <newbury at mandamus.org>
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV reception via Cable
To: christian.burger at abtg.net, 	Discussion about mythtv
	<mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
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Christian Burger wrote:
> Can you manually tune your card with azap or mplayer?  I too am on Charter
> but using an Aver TVHD A180.  Myth just won't tune the card no matter what
> I've tried, but mplayer will tune it via channels.conf.  When you generate
> your channels.conf you are just doing atscscan atsc/us-Cable-Standard >
> channels.conf right?

We will need more information to be able to diagnose the problem.

It sounds like you have followed a guide but obviously something has 
gone wrong... This is the wiki page:

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Adding_QAM_Channels_For_HDTV_Tuner_Card
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Does "atscscan US-Cable-Standard-whatever-the-name-is-Frequencies" work?

It should give you a list of probably upwards of a couple of hundred 
'channels' on 8 to 10 different frequencies. If you don't get 
anything/much from one frequency set, try the other Frequency files and 
modulation methods Your cable co may use a different transmission 
standard on the cable, possibly not QAM-256.

Don't be surprised at the number of 'hits' you get. These 'hits' include 
all of the encrypted (Pay-per-view etc) channels and all of the music 
channels. In the Toronto area, I get 27 unencrypted digital channels on 
Rogers, out of a scan of 404! (The music channels are probably actually 
usable, with some poking and prodding of myth).

If you cannot get this far, TARFUN....  And I would suspect that the 
hardware is bad...

Geoff
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I get a usable channels.conf that I am able to tune using mplayer.
So I am pretty confident the hardware works okay.  I think the problem is 
my sourceid.  I tried the recommend azap -r STATION and dvbscan -c but it
lists all my channels (services) when I run it.  I think I will go ahead and
beat my head on the wall as it will probably help my progress :)