Thank you for that QAM scanning script! I ran it and I'll include the results below...<br>
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<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Those look like broadcast channels. Your cable<br>operator should transmit the PSIP data for them
<br>so that you shouldn't have to rename them to<br>something more user friendly. If there's no<br>PSIP data, then something is wrong.</blockquote><div><br>
Are you sure? I think I've seen many posts about cable operaters not
providing PSIP information. Here is the output of channels.conf
generated by the script you attached:<br>
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[000-0001]:561000000:QAM_256:16:17:1<br>
[001-0003]:561000000:QAM_256:144:145:3<br>
[002-0002]:561000000:QAM_256:80:81:2<br>
...<br>
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There are about 15 more entries, but the top three ought to be enought to discuss.<br>
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1) Is the left most field what you would expect to see? How about the rest of the lines?<br>
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2) I tuned into those channels by "name" (ie [000-0001]) and could
watch some of them with Mplayer. I could watch NBC, ABC, CBS, and FOX
which I expected to be in clear QAM. The rest were probably encrypted
because I could get a lock but couldn't see anything.<br>
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In the output above, the first two are viewable with mplayer, the last is not.<br>
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</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">>Now the question... Has anyone figured out how<br>>to import these channels into
<br>>MythTV? I'm running 0.18.1. Inside of mythtv-setup,<br>>the only channel scan<br>>setup options seem to be ATSC or Cable. I tried<br>>cable but it doesn't find<br>>these channels even though the newer versions
<br>>of dvb-apps find channels<br>>while scanning. (Not too suprising.)<br><br>If there's PSIP data, you shouldn't have to.<br>mythtvsetup should pick them up automagically.</blockquote><div><br>
And if not? :) ... This must be where it gets tricky.<br>
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I tried doing a manual transport scan within the channel editor and I
selected one of the frequencies above which I new I could view with
mplayer. This kinda worked, but Myth made weird channel named,
literally like "2#2". I could actually tune to one or two of them and
watch them within Myth, which is very exciting, but the guide data was
wrong and two others wouldn't tune, so I'm not there yet.<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Go to <a href="http://labs.zap2it.com">labs.zap2it.com</a>, add those channels to<br>your lineup and do a mythfilldatabase. It
<br>should show up in your channel table where you<br>can go poke for it. In the past, I bypassed<br>xmltvid and went to mythweb->settings->channels<br>and set the freqid to zap2it's cable channel number<br>but I don't know if it still works the latest svn
<br>code.</blockquote><div><br>
Okay, I was able to do that and get the XMLTV IDs. On the other
hand, this didn't help get the guide data into the imported channels
and also doesn't help them tune in any better. (Maybe a more
experienced Myth guru wouldn't expect it to :)<br>
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So anyway, I'm getting there. If anyone has any more ideas, please let
me know. It feels tantilizingly close since I can tune channels
manually and watch them, it seems like it must just be a matter of
getting the channel numbers and such into the right format for Myth to
understand.<br>
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