[mythtv-users] Clear QAM channels

Mark Tiddens tiddens at jumpingdolphins.com
Thu Aug 5 18:02:52 UTC 2010


We are located in San Diego north county and use Cox.  With WinTV7 and the
950Q USB stick connected directly to the TV cable, it gets 44 channels from
channel 2024 to channel 2247, including the local HD stations and music
channels.


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[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Raymond Wagner
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 9:09 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Can't get it to work


On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Mark Tiddens <tiddens at jumpingdolphins.com>
wrote:

> I'm trying to find a Linux alternative to the WinTV7 software that 
> gets all channels, including clear QAM channels numbering in the 
> thousands.  WinTV7 was simple to set up, and gets these channels.

I'm sure there are tons of people around here interested in knowing what
cable company you have.  I've not heard of a cable company that even offers
a lineup with a thousand channels, much less one that provides them
unencrypted.  Are you sure those channels actually exist, and there aren't
huge gaps due to the way the cable company has them numbered?  
Are you sure those channels are actually unencrypted, and you can record
from them, rather than just included in an all encompassing lineup Microsoft
provided?

You are correct that if Windows can access those clear QAM channels, Linux
and MythTV should be able to as well.  However, most cable companies only
provide unencrypted what is required of them by the FCC, which means only
your local 'must carry' broadcast channels.  Anything more than that and you
either need a Cablecard tuner, or you need analog capture off a cable box.
Cablecard tuners are very likely to never work with MythTV.  The most you
might be able to do is recording shows marked 'copy freely' off Silicon
Dust's new Cablecard box, but those are going to be the same shows you can
record off the cable box over firewire anyway.

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Mark Tiddens <tiddens at jumpingdolphins.com>
wrote:

> I work for CatchTheWaveTV.com, makers of The Wave, a PC designed to 
> connect to TV's, and we want everything to be pre-installed, so if 
> Mythtv must use this SchedulesDirect, we cannot implement it in The Wave.

Tribune Media Services formerly provided a free subscription for individual
non-commercial users to get high quality guide data.  This was abused by
companies wanting free guide data for their commercial DVRs, so TMS
terminated the service.  SchedulesDirect was started up to collectively
license the guide data from TMS in order to provide it to the non-commercial
community at a nominal fee.

If you wish to provide guide data with your commercial product, you will
have to license it for use just like everyone else.  Windows 7 does not
provide free guide data.  Microsoft has purchased a license to redistribute
someone's guide data, and that cost is included in the price of your Windows
license.
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