Trying to get NBC back

[lazyslacker]

This question may be too region-specific for anyone here to help me, especially since a lot of people on this forum are not American. Anyway, shortly after the Olympics started my GB-PVR stopped tuning NBC. Puzzled, I re-scanned for digital channels in the digital channel mapping application, found NBC and re-mapped it to the appropriate channel. It seemed to have the same address (77.2 or something) but I didn't look at the specific tuning request so it could have been slightly different. Everything was fine until after the olympics, when NBC stopped working again. I have scanned multiple times with the digital channel mapping app, but it doesn't find NBC. It pretty much skips from 70.5 to 81.2. I've manually looked through all the channels and none of them are NBC.

The reason I mention the Olympics is because I had no problem with NBC until then. I hypothesize that NBC (at least for my cable provider, COX) was given extra bandwidth or something during the olympics, which necessitated a slight frequency change.

I don't have my tuner card on a splitter. If it matters, I have a Hauppauge HVR-1600. The most ideal thing would be for me to use the exact tuning request that NBC is supposed to be using and see if I get anything that way. I know it's a long shot that anyone else would be able to provide this, but I thought I'd ask. Is there any way I can find the exact tuning request of a channel that my tuner isn't automatically detecting? Like some online database? I'm located in Macon, GA.

Thanks for any help.

[dennit]

I don't have my tuner card on a splitter. If it matters, I have a Hauppauge HVR-1600. The most ideal thing would be for me to use the exact tuning request that NBC is supposed to be using and see if I get anything that way. I know it's a long shot that anyone else would be able to provide this, but I thought I'd ask. Is there any way I can find the exact tuning request of a channel that my tuner isn't automatically detecting? Like some online database? I'm located in Macon, GA.

You can try SiliconDust

[lazyslacker]

yeah, I've already tried that. I still don't know exactly what the tuning request should be. I know it's something along the lines of T:77,77,2 but I don't know what comes after that.

[ilovejedd]

Is the HVR-1600 running off a splitter? Try connecting it directly to the wall or something. I know a lot of people from various locations in the US have noticed signal strength dropped for NBC.

[lazyslacker]

No, no splitter. Another problem has cropped up now, since I've been messing around with this. I re-installed the drivers for the card, and now sound won't work in GB-PVR. It works fine in WinTV. Any ideas anyone?

[Satori]

Here in Dallas NBC has been updating their lineup and it has been causing problems for a number of people (look at the link starting about post #4473):

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthrea...0&page=150

Not sure if it has also been happening there, but it could be the cause of your problems.

[lazyslacker]

Thanks for the info Satori, maybe the problem isn't with me or my setup. I fixed my sound issue also. Turns out that my AC3 decoder somehow was uninstalled. I figured this out by trying to play something that I recorded with GB-PVR with VLC. VLC played it fine, windows media player had the same problem as GB-PVR. It was definitely a codec problem.