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

[Chad]

On 7/2/06, Brad Midgley <bmidgley at xmission.com> wrote:
> Hey
>
> Anyone else working with pchdtv?
>
> I set up mythtv on dapper:
>
> Capture cards
>  "DVB DTV capture card (v3.x)"
>  (detects oren or51132 vsb/qam frontend subtype ats if backend is not
> running)
>
> Video sources
>  zip2it
>  North America (DataDirect)
>  Data direct lineup: Comcast-cabledigital-digital rebuild-84003-u
>  channel frequency table: default
>
> Input connections
>  [DVB:0] (dvbinput) -> zip2it
>  scan for channels
>  freq table: cable
>  atsc mod: cable (qam 128)
>
> Scans never seem to find anything, but I can at least use tvtime to
> watch analog cable and I did manage to capture a little PBS hdtv a while
> back using some channel scanner thing that is not part of mythtv.
>
> When I choose to watch live tv from mythtvfrontend, the screen flashes
> and goes back to the menu. I can choose to record things but after
> they've aired, trying to watch anything shows the error "the file for
> this recording cannot be found"
>
> Am I doing anything obviously wrong?
>
> Brad
>

I don't necessarily call myself a total guru, but I kind of think that
I know quite a bit about how to get things working with MythTV.  I
dedicated literally 2 full days with only a few hours of sleep in
between to getting my pcHDTV 3000 working with Comcast QAM and then
gave up due to lack of *anything*.  Using OTA I had no problem picking
up every channel available and integrating it with MythTV.  On my
first try I did have to learn how to use DVB cards, but other than
that, the rest was really easy.
It could very well be my fault and I'm just being dense and stubborn,
but whatever it is, it certainly doesn't seem as easy as OTA is, at
least not in my corner of the globe (Woods Cross).

-Chad