[mythtv-users] HDHomeRun and QAM

[Daniel Kristjansson]

On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 18:13 -0700, jafa wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 20:19 -0400, Ken Mandelberg wrote:
> >   
> >> Is anyone successfully running Mythtv 0.20 (stable svn fixes release) 
> >> with a HDHomeRun using QAM. I'm on Comcast and I am able to use vlc with 
> >> the HDHR for viewing. But even with 10/08 HDHR firmware Myth's scanning 
> >> gets confused, and my attempts to add channels manually end up with
> >>     
> > <snip>
> >   
> >> 2006-10-15 17:23:31.489 HDHRChan(ffffffff/0), Error: dtv_multiplex data 
> >> is required for tuning
> >>     
> > Did you scan for channels using the scan button in the input
> > connections panel in mythtv-setup? It looks like you are trying
> > to tune an analog channel...
> I see a similar problem on some cable channels here... there are a two 
> issues...
>
> 1) Your cable company isn't broadcasting the channel information as
> part of the stream (name, number etc).
Unfortunately this is not that unusual, that's why I wrote
the frontend channel editor, to make fixing these channels
up a little bit easier.

> 2) MythTV setup gets confused and incorrectly adds them as analog
> channels.
Really? Jafa, can you reproduce this on your end and send me
the "mythtv-setup -vchannel,siparser" output from the scan?

-- Daniel