[mythtv-users] rescanning new comcast QAM256 channels (old analog) with hdhomerun
Andrew Burgess
aab at cichlid.com
Sat Apr 11 05:01:57 UTC 2009
On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 20:42 -0500, Mr. Vining wrote:
> > Problem is that when I rescanned with hdhomerun in mythtv-setup, it
> > picked
> > up a few extra channels, but not the ones I needed.
> I've had that issue a few times, the default is not "full scan".
> Make sure when you set up the scan to do a full scan, and cable, and
> qam256, but mostly the full scan is what I miss anyway. Also for the
> heck of it, you might want to try scanning qam64. Here in MN when we
> first rolled out digial we weren't using qam256, but i would think
> they have moved to qam256 across the board by now. Might be worth a
> try.
Did you try the scan with the hdhomerun utility? It not only scans many
times faster but it scans for all the qam-N in one scan. That would tell
you if it's a hdhr problem or a myth problem.
Here in Santa Cruz CA, comcast has both qam-256 and qam-64
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