On 6/7/05, Greg Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 07:58 -0700, Mudit Wahal wrote: > > > > > The freqid 3 looks fishy to me. > > It comes from the default starting channel, which is "3". That's a valid > channel on my cable system. > > > The freqid for digital stations is in > > format x-y. > > I don't have digital cable, I only have analog. Does that matter? (I did > say I'm a newbie in the TV world, right? :-) If so, where is the > setting I need to tweak for that? > > I did buy an HDTV card because I do plan to get digital cable > eventually, once the prices of HD-capable TV sets come down to something > reasonable. But right now I just have analog via standard coax. > > My local cable system does offer digital cable now even though I don't > subscribe to it, so this could certainly result in bogus channel data > being downloaded from ZapIt if the data is for digital but I have > analog. Is that a possibility here? > > > live TV by default doesn't work unless you have set > > the starting channel correctly. Change the default channel in > > mythsetup to 5_1 or something which works for you. > > This is the first time I've seen an underscore and two numbers to > specify a channel. What does this mean? > > > Thanks again for the help that's been given to me so far. > > --Greg > > > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > >
Ah, there's the catch. The HD3000 can tune HD one of two ways - OTA via an antenna with the V4L drivers, or QAM (aka digital cable) via the DVB drivers. To tune regular analog cable you'll need a card like the PVR-350 (or 250, etc.). That's what I do. I have two cards in the system, a PVR-350 for tuning analog cable, and the HD3000 for tuning the HD channels (I get about seven or eight from comcast). _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
