[mythtv-users] Verifying HD content with a HD-3000

[Byron Poland]

On 5/15/06, Joel Turner <jturner421 at aol.com> wrote:
>
> On May 15, 2006, at 5:24 PM, Byron Poland wrote:
>
> > On 5/15/06, Joel Turner <jturner421 at aol.com> wrote:
> >> I am curious how one can verify that they have succesfully set up an
> >> HD-3000 for HDTV viewing. I currently have an SD setup with the
> >> primary
> >> card being a PVR350. I purchased the HD3000 several months back but
> >> never got around to setting it up. Last weekend, I succesfuly set
> >> it up
> >> according to the Wiki directions for QAM256. To set up my card I
> >> went to
> >> Zap-It, configured a digital cable lineup to use for the HD-3000,
> >> associated the card with it, created a channels.conf and imported it
> >> into Myth. I also changed the entries in the channel table for each
> >> entry (mplexid and serviceid) and zeroed out atscsrcid. It is
> >> currently
> >> the second tuner in my system. Coming from the wall I have split the
> >> cable with one feed to the HD-3000 and the other to my Cable box.
> >> I am
> >> using Charter in Madison, WI and was able to receive approximately 30
> >> channels unencrypted including all local channels on the HD-3000.
> >>
> >> Here is where I am confused if I'm actually capturing HDTV content.
> >> Charter supplies what they call HDTV capable boxes and have
> >> reserved an
> >> upper band of channels on their service for HDTV. For instance Fox
> >> is on
> >> channel 8 and channel 757. If I use the HD-3000 as the selected tuner
> >> and schedule it to record the show 24 on channel 8, am I capturing HD
> >> content as it's broadcast in HD? Is there a way to check the
> >> completed
> >> file for information that would confirm that I have? I'm planning on
> >> purchasing an LCD shortly and would love to be able to confirm that
> >> everything is set up properly.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance for your responses.
> >>
> >> --Joel
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> > While its recording you can check the system status (myth web or on
> > the frontend, or watch the log file) to see if it is your HD3000 tuner
> > recording or not.  additionally when its done, the size alone of HD
> > vs. SD should tell you if its in HD.
> >
> > in my experience of a backend with both SD and HD tuners, with 6=SD
> > and 601=HD,  I had to explicitly select it to record on 601 for it to
> > record in HD.
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> Perhaps my example was  poor.  I've verified in upcoming recordings
> that it is using tuner 2 (HD3000).  I'm also assuming that the size
> of the recording will be about 6GB per hour if not greater.  As for
> the 6 vs 601 in your example, I have no idea what it's actually
> using.  Charter does not show station identifiers over QAM_256. When
> verifying channels with mplayer I know that it showed content from
> FOX.  I updated from my imported channel.conf the mplexid and
> serviceid to the FOX entry populated by mythfilldatabase when I set
> the zap-it line up to the card in myth-setup.  I assume the end
> result is that what I provided it with the proper settings for tuning
> with the HD3000 and so that it would also have the correct entries
> for grabbing schedule information from zap-it.
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Perhaps I'm mis-understanding your question, but it sounds like you've
verified that you have in fact recorded HD content, so does that mean
your question becomes how do I verify that I recorded the correct HD
channel?  I guess that is a trial and error, or look at the database
and see that your channel id's match your channels.conf and match what
they actually are ie... fox is at 267000000 3 1 and those numbers
match your channels.conf.