[mythtv-users] Verizon FIOS, DViCO FusionHDTV 5 Lite card and MythTV Channel Scanning

[jack snodgrass]

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:

>
> On Mar 4, 2008, at 7:56 PM, Bob wrote:
> >>
> >>
> > Have you tried using mythtv-setup to scan the channels for you?  It
> > may
> > not get the "channel numbers" right, but you can at least find the
> > channels and adjust the channel numbers later.
>
> Also:
>
> A cable system is standard, HRC or IRC, and I think the "high"
> selections skip the lower frequency channels, which are often used for
> analog, data etc. "High" may scan higher channels than the "non-High"
> choice, I'm not sure about that.
>
> So if you can discover what frequency standard your system uses you
> can get the choices reduced considerably. IRC is rarely used, and
> standard is more common than HRC.
>
> (Harmonically Related Carriers, and Incrementally Related Carriers,
> for the acronym curious)
>
> beww
>  <http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users>
>

Thanks guys.  I did try the scan and it didn't seem to do anything... that's
why I was
asking about IRC-vs-HRC-standard....

Turns out things work better when you scan a card that has a coax connected
to it...
if you scan the wrong card... it just gets time outs on every channel and
takes a long
time to tell you that it didn't see any channels. ;( If you scan the card
with the coax
connected to it, things work a lot better. ;)

I got similar results with Cable and Cable IRC. The Cable IRC option seemed
to have
gotten my channel numbers more correct than the Cable option scan.

I only get the local OTA HD stations and some local access stations... I was
hoping
for more...  I'll have to see how this compares to my OTA antenna that I
used to use
for HDTV recording.

Thanks again - jack
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