On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Brian Wood <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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On Mar 4, 2008, at 7:56 PM, Bob wrote:<br>
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> Have you tried using mythtv-setup to scan the channels for you? It<br>
> may<br>
> not get the "channel numbers" right, but you can at least find the<br>
> channels and adjust the channel numbers later.<br>
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</div>Also:<br>
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A cable system is standard, HRC or IRC, and I think the "high"<br>
selections skip the lower frequency channels, which are often used for<br>
analog, data etc. "High" may scan higher channels than the "non-High"<br>
choice, I'm not sure about that.<br>
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So if you can discover what frequency standard your system uses you<br>
can get the choices reduced considerably. IRC is rarely used, and<br>
standard is more common than HRC.<br>
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(Harmonically Related Carriers, and Incrementally Related Carriers,<br>
for the acronym curious)<br>
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beww<br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users" target="_blank"></a></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Thanks guys. I did try the scan and it didn't seem to do anything... that's why I was<br>
asking about IRC-vs-HRC-standard.... <br><br>Turns out things work better when you scan a card that has a coax connected to it... <br>if you scan the wrong card... it just gets time outs on every channel and takes a long <br>
time to tell you that it didn't see any channels. ;( If you scan the card with the coax <br>connected to it, things work a lot better. ;) <br><br>I got similar results with Cable and Cable IRC. The Cable IRC option seemed to have<br>
gotten my channel numbers more correct than the Cable option scan. <br><br>I only get the local OTA HD stations and some local access stations... I was hoping <br>for more... I'll have to see how this compares to my OTA antenna that I used to use<br>
for HDTV recording. <br><br>Thanks again - jack <br></div></div><br>