[mythtv-users] I bought a pcHDTV 5500, now what?

[Steven Adeff]

On 11/22/06, Derek Tattersall <tatters at newsguy.com> wrote:
> I just installed a pcHDTV 5500 in my pc, and it seems to be sort of
> working. I am running a 2.6.18 kernel on a fedora fc5 box, and the
> drivers identified the card and loaded properly, I think. I went and got
> the latest version of dvb-apps and ran the dvbscan utility with the
> us-Cable-Standard-center-frequencies-QAM256 channel file.
>
> However, when I run the dvbscan utility, it doesn't give me any channel
> identifiers. The channels.conf file that I generated has a couple
> hundred lines like this, without any channel ids:
>
> [000-000b]:561000000:QAM_256:0:94:11
> [001-000c]:561000000:QAM_256:0:97:12
> [002-0012]:561000000:QAM_256:0:92:18
> [003-0015]:561000000:QAM_256:68:69:21
>
> I tried a few of these entries using the azap utility and mplayer, and
> was able to get a signal on a couple of them, and there was no decodable
> output on some others.
>
> How do I figure out what cable channels go with which entries in the
> channels.conf file?
>
> I have Time Warner cable in the Greensboro NC region.
>
> Thanks
> --
> Derek Tattersall
> lizzard at newsguy.com

uhm. watch them?
then add them to
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Working_QAM_cable_layout

-- 
Steve
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