[mythtv-users] Easiest way to find NBC on Comcast QAM

Peter Bennett (cats22) cats22 at comcast.net
Thu Jun 27 02:50:30 UTC 2013


On 06/26/2013 06:32 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 06/26/2013 06:01 PM, Mike Perkins wrote:
>> On 26/06/13 17:51, Monkey Pet wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Mitchell Gore wrote:
>>>
>>>> To find the freq from Silicondust's page look at the page source. 
>>>> In the
>>>> XML the freq is listed.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Mitchell is right, the frequency data, program number, was in the
>>> XML and
>>> it matches what scte65scan reported!  I know my clear QAM days are
>>> numbered, eventually I'll go with OTA.
>>>
>>> <Program> <Modulation>qam256</Modulation>
>>> <Frequency>129000000</Frequency>
>>> <PhysicalChannel>15</PhysicalChannel> <ProgramNumber>1</ProgramNumber>
>>> <GuideNumber></GuideNumber> <GuideName>KNTVDT</GuideName> <Resolution>
>>> 1920x1080i</Resolution> <Aspect>16:9</Aspect>
>>> <Snapshot>43208324</Snapshot>
>>>
>>> </Program>
>>>
>>>
>> Am I being dense here? There /has/ to be a way of scripting together
>> the output of scte65scan and the XML data and updating the database
>> directly.
>
> IMHO, it would make more sense for the person who wanted it to be easy
> to just improve the mythtv-setup channel scanner (and possibly add
> SCTE interpretation to it or ...).  A huge reason we have so much
> "less than perfect" stuff in MythTV is because people keep insisting
> on creating external workarounds instead of working to improve MythTV...
>
> Mike
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I have a daily script that updates mythtv channel data from scte65scan.
It never used to have all the HD channels. Comcast finally added all the
HD channels to the scte65 which means at last my clear-QAM will be kept
perfectly in sync .... until they start encrypting. Oh the irony!

Peter



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