2008-01-04, 07:04 PM
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Comcast keeps making changes that are messing up my tuning. Happened yesterday on Fox. I am using Clear Qam on an Aver M780 card. Fox is mapped by Comcast, normally, to channel 2.1, but is physically on channel 115, program 2.
In GBPVR, I have cut and pasted the entire tuning string into the source tuning parameter location. However, last night, during the Orange Bowl, it stopped working. My TV tuner maps over to the "2.1" named location, and also stopped working. However, the Aver software, crappy as it is, still tuned the program!
What I found by re-scanning just channel 115 is that all of the tuning parameters changed, then name was dropped, but the program was still 115.2. Therefore, my TV could not find it (no longer name-mapped), neither could pvrx2 (no longer proper tuning parameters), but Aver could (cannot see what they do, but presumably they just point to channel 115, program #2).
So, in the tuner setup, instead of listing all the tuning parameters, is there a way to simply specify physical channel 115, program #2? It seems whenever they mess things up, the channel and program remain in the right place, but the tuning parameters change. I have found the same on channel 125, which houses about a dozen SD channels. The program number stays correct, but the tuning parameters change. If I re-scan and cut and paste from the Cache file, all is good again for a month or two.
Here is the old tuning string:
T:115,2,1~P:2~V:33~A:35~PMT:32~N:>2.1 Kasa (000(AC3))
Here is the new tuning string last night:
T:115,115,1~P:2~V:49~A:52~PMT:32~PCR:49~N:>115.1 Unknown1 (000(AC3))
Here is the listing from SiliconDust:
Type Channel Program Call Sign Resolution Aspect
qam256 115 2 KASADT 1280x720p
16:9
Comcast keeps making changes that are messing up my tuning. Happened yesterday on Fox. I am using Clear Qam on an Aver M780 card. Fox is mapped by Comcast, normally, to channel 2.1, but is physically on channel 115, program 2.
In GBPVR, I have cut and pasted the entire tuning string into the source tuning parameter location. However, last night, during the Orange Bowl, it stopped working. My TV tuner maps over to the "2.1" named location, and also stopped working. However, the Aver software, crappy as it is, still tuned the program!
What I found by re-scanning just channel 115 is that all of the tuning parameters changed, then name was dropped, but the program was still 115.2. Therefore, my TV could not find it (no longer name-mapped), neither could pvrx2 (no longer proper tuning parameters), but Aver could (cannot see what they do, but presumably they just point to channel 115, program #2).
So, in the tuner setup, instead of listing all the tuning parameters, is there a way to simply specify physical channel 115, program #2? It seems whenever they mess things up, the channel and program remain in the right place, but the tuning parameters change. I have found the same on channel 125, which houses about a dozen SD channels. The program number stays correct, but the tuning parameters change. If I re-scan and cut and paste from the Cache file, all is good again for a month or two.
Here is the old tuning string:
T:115,2,1~P:2~V:33~A:35~PMT:32~N:>2.1 Kasa (000(AC3))
Here is the new tuning string last night:
T:115,115,1~P:2~V:49~A:52~PMT:32~PCR:49~N:>115.1 Unknown1 (000(AC3))
Here is the listing from SiliconDust:
Type Channel Program Call Sign Resolution Aspect
qam256 115 2 KASADT 1280x720p
16:9