2008-12-09, 07:51 PM
Setup - Comcast Cable w/ ~ 20 clear cast qam channels, Windows XP, Hauppauge HVR-1600 & GBPVR --
I have my analog channels mapped and everything is just peachy. Now I come to trying to receive Comcast cable clear QAM channels and getting them mapped accordingly. So far, it looks like I have pretty good signal strength and gbpvr seems to scan and see most (if not all) of the channels that WinTV was able to sniff out -- But I then realized that I was unprepared to do the actual mapping between EPG (SchedulesDirect) and the scanned channels so I cancelled out and didn't save the configuration change.
The various posts (& wiki) are getting me totally confused about the mapping process -- Mostly because everyone is throwing out terms left and right that most of us "digitally ignorant" folks can't grasp. As best as I can understand it the steps seem to be:
a) If the channels don't have any digital signatures embedded in the data stream, GBPVR has to end up identifying it with a made-up place-holder.
b) You need to go through and manually map between the EPG channel names and pick the corresponding scanned channel -- GBPVR gives you a preview window to help out but you are pretty much on your own.
So my questions are (at long last):
1) Can I defer this mapping until AFTER I have done the basic configuration? I aborted out initially because I was afraid to map channels and only then find out that I was wrong and have to start over again from scratch. I know I won't have EPG support until I do the mapping but can be done at a later date without starting over?
2) It looks like it might take me a good couple of hours to walk through each channel, watch it for a while, and then figure out which channel it actually is -- especially since some of the channels are HD and others are SD (even I start using the alphabet soup). Any way I can take a break and then come back to it after only mapping/naming a portion of the files?
3) Any way I can simply hand edit the files after the fact and then import them? I saw discussions of some stuff in the qam.ini files and other things requiring editing in the sql database (for those intrepid soles). I didn't see enough info to make me comfortable that I wouldn't end up trashing GBPVR and have to reload.
I have my analog channels mapped and everything is just peachy. Now I come to trying to receive Comcast cable clear QAM channels and getting them mapped accordingly. So far, it looks like I have pretty good signal strength and gbpvr seems to scan and see most (if not all) of the channels that WinTV was able to sniff out -- But I then realized that I was unprepared to do the actual mapping between EPG (SchedulesDirect) and the scanned channels so I cancelled out and didn't save the configuration change.
The various posts (& wiki) are getting me totally confused about the mapping process -- Mostly because everyone is throwing out terms left and right that most of us "digitally ignorant" folks can't grasp. As best as I can understand it the steps seem to be:
a) If the channels don't have any digital signatures embedded in the data stream, GBPVR has to end up identifying it with a made-up place-holder.
b) You need to go through and manually map between the EPG channel names and pick the corresponding scanned channel -- GBPVR gives you a preview window to help out but you are pretty much on your own.
So my questions are (at long last):
1) Can I defer this mapping until AFTER I have done the basic configuration? I aborted out initially because I was afraid to map channels and only then find out that I was wrong and have to start over again from scratch. I know I won't have EPG support until I do the mapping but can be done at a later date without starting over?
2) It looks like it might take me a good couple of hours to walk through each channel, watch it for a while, and then figure out which channel it actually is -- especially since some of the channels are HD and others are SD (even I start using the alphabet soup). Any way I can take a break and then come back to it after only mapping/naming a portion of the files?
3) Any way I can simply hand edit the files after the fact and then import them? I saw discussions of some stuff in the qam.ini files and other things requiring editing in the sql database (for those intrepid soles). I didn't see enough info to make me comfortable that I wouldn't end up trashing GBPVR and have to reload.