[mythtv-users] Program to read virtual channel data from Comcast clearQAM

Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com
Sun May 3 22:50:10 UTC 2009


On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Robert McNamara
<robert.mcnamara at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm unclear as to what hardware this app is trying to talk to? A DTA?
>> My HDHR? A PVR-150 seems quite unlikely....
>
> None of the above-- /dev/dvb is where any linux compatible digital
> tuner conforming to the v4l-dvb API lives.  So in this case, a
> non-HDHR QAM tuner.  A HVR-1600, HD-5500, KWorld 115, etc.
>
> Robert

Humm...OK - I don't know anything about those devices.

So I guess it sounds like there's no way for me to use it then? (Note
- I'm not a programmer so I'm not going to try and change anything
here.)

Thanks for the info.

- Mark


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