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

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Thu Mar 23 15:34:08 UTC 2006


On 3/23/06, Warren <warren-lists at icruise.com> wrote:
> Jesse Guardiani wrote:
> > So is the concensus that QAM is encrypted on Charter Cable?
> > Or is there something wrong with jb's setup/card?
> >
> > I bought an AverTV A180 and followed the guide on the wiki. I'm getting
> > the same issue with Charter Cable: Scan comes up with channels, but mplayer
> > can't play the streams. It detects the video as MPEG-TS, but states NO_VIDEO!
> > NO_AUDIO! Is that textbook encrypted behavior?
> >
> While I do not know this for a fact, I believe that part of the federal
> must-carry laws state the the local OTA channels may not be encrypted,
> so I would think that it is more likely that the hardware is bad.

Only analog OTA must be unencrypted, OTA ATSC can be, though its very rare.

use mplayer -v to get a list of all the streams in the mpeg and their
ID, perhaps mplayer is choosing the wrong ID's as default?

--
Steve


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