[sllug-members]: pchdtv settings for utah comcast?

Brad Midgley bmidgley at xmission.com
Sat Jul 8 11:43:28 MDT 2006


Jarom

>> Anyone else working with pchdtv?
> 
> Which pcHDTV are you using?  2000, 3000, 5500?

3000

> Have you used the command-line utilities to see if you can pick up
> channels?  Try dtvscan and see if you find any channels.  Then try

I only get five channels this way, and nothing at all if I don't specify
a '-q' flag

$ ./dvb-atsc-tools-1.0.1/dtvscan -q -o output
dtvscan ver 1.0 - by Jack Kelliher (c) 2002
Attempting to open /dev/dtv
channel = 2
channel = 3
channel = 4
 ...
channel = 156
channel = 157
channel = 158

$ cat output
      :      :101.1 :101: 2:1
      :      :103.1 :103: 2:1
      :      :104.1 :104: 2:1
      :      :106.1 :106: 2:1
      :      :107.1 :107: 2:1

$ ./dvb-atsc-tools-1.0.1/dtvsignal -q 101
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
setting frontend to QAM cable
tuning to 657000000 Hz
video pid 0x0021, audio pid 0x0024
dtvsignal ver 1.0 - by Jack Kelliher (c) 2002
channel = 101  freq = 657000000Hz table 657
channel = 101 freq = 657000000Hz
 30db       0%         25%         50%         75%        100%
Signal:     |     .     :     .     |     ._____:_____._____|
Signal: 099 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

$ ./dvb-atsc-tools-1.0.1/getatsc -q 101 >test.mpg
$ mplayer test.mpg
...
No stream found.

brad


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