HVR-1600 setup for QAM?

[sub]

I assume lock is not found, yet there is strength and quality.

Yeah, no signal lock, so no data pass on to GB-PVR.

[Krista]

Shoot. Those must not be the frequencies. What's frustrating is that my hyundai imagequest with qam tuner finds all the local qam channels just fine, but none of the qam scanners in software seem to find them with the 1600.

If anyone knows what the Cox fairfax, VA QAM frequencies are and exactly how I'd enter them in the ini (if other than ,0,#) please let me know.

Thanks,
Krista

[sub]

Shoot. Those must not be the frequencies. What's frustrating is that my hyundai imagequest with qam tuner finds all the local qam channels just fine, but none of the qam scanners in software seem to find them with the 1600.

If anyone knows what the Cox fairfax, VA QAM frequencies are and exactly how I'd enter them in the ini (if other than ,0,#) please let me know.

Does you hyundai imagequest show the exact frequency?

[Krista]

Does you hyundai imagequest show the exact frequency?

I can't find a way to make it show it. It shows the channel numbers.. 4, 5, 5-2, 7, 9, 9-2, 26-1 (through 4), etc.

Krista

[spotter]

BTW, I agree that the "channel" mappings don't seem to line up with what are in the WinTV app. In WinTV an autoscan goes from 1-125 and there are channels near the end of the autoscan that I can't seem to find in GBPVR.

Another interesting feature for ClearQAM would be.

1) being able to clear the "found channels" list
2) if one does a rescan, to highlight the newly discovered channels (perhaps there was a weak signal before and the device couldn't get a lock) (i.e. a rescan should add to the list not clear and rebuild from scratch)

For instance (and this is a problem w/ WinTV as well) in doing a channel scan, I sometimes can get ABC-HD and sometimes not. If I find it once, I can place it in the EPG mapping and it works. However, if I do a rescan and want to move it, I can't, as its not there.

[spotter]

Oh another thing I noticed, many times the same channel is detected twice. GBPVR seems to designate one w/ an AC3 and the other one without (have no clue what that means). Anyways, it seems they sometimes correspond to 2 different audio streams for the same channel (ala SAP). Generally they were the same for me when both worked (though one might have been a little louder, but hard to judge) but in a few cases (mostly w/ PBS stations) one language seemed to be spanish (yo no hablo espanol) while the other was in english. don't know how gbpvr can handle it, just figured I'd bring it up.

[sub]

Oh another thing I noticed, many times the same channel is detected twice. GBPVR seems to designate one w/ an AC3 and the other one without (have no clue what that means). Anyways, it seems they sometimes correspond to 2 different audio streams for the same channel (ala SAP). Generally they were the same for me when both worked (though one might have been a little louder, but hard to judge) but in a few cases (mostly w/ PBS stations) one language seemed to be spanish (yo no hablo espanol) while the other was in english. don't know how gbpvr can handle it, just figured I'd bring it up.

Yeah, this is normal. GB-PVR list each audio stream as virtual channel. The user can map to whichever one they want to keep. Some users get more info on which channel is, like language name etc, but this isnt shown with QAM.

[mcervi]

Just out of curiosity, could you tell it was a 74041 tuner from the box when you bought it? There seems to be only 74021 in the picture of all the boxes at my local best buy.

The box showed a 74021.

[Krista]

I can't find a way to make it show it. It shows the channel numbers.. 4, 5, 5-2, 7, 9, 9-2, 26-1 (through 4), etc.

Krista

These are Not the frequencies, right?

Krista

[mvallevand]

These are Not the frequencies, right?

Krista

On some tuners QAM channels can be mapped to freqency. I gave a link earlier on in this thread to where these mappings are shown. Since multiple stations can be broadcast on one frequency (they are 6Mhz ranges) you end up with 26-1 26-2 ...

However in your case since sub has already done the mapping of standard channels to frequency I don't think this is the same problem that people are seeing with non-standard frequencies.

Martin