Useing 2 differant sources of TV

[dc9mm]

Not sure iam explaing myself correctly.
I have 3 HAUPPAUGE capture cards. two 1600 and one older 150. I have standard analog cable and want to connect antenna to one of the 1600 cards as they have digital tuners. So i will have one 1600 and the 150 connected to analog cable TV and one 1600 to an antenna so i can get digital TV on that card. I will then need a seperate EPG to get channel info for the 1600 connected to antenna.

So what happens when i go into GBPVR and go to the TV guide.
Does it just add the digital stations to the TV guide?

Does it indicate which are the digital channels?

When i set it to record one of the digital channels will GBPVR know which 1600 card to use? I of course will setup one of the 1600 to antenna in the setup in GBPVR.

Then lets say i just want to whatch a digital channel in LIVE TV mode. Will GBPVR know which capture card to use?

Whole reason for this is i want to finnaly upgrade to a new LCD TV which is the HD wide fornat kind so since i dont want to pay cable company for digital (alot more $$) i figure i can get HD TV for free over an antenna. Still want analog cable for cable channels i like to whatch. Freind says over tha air HDTV comes in crystal clear for him.

[stustunz]

its hard to do what you want unless you can get epg data that has different names for the digital and analog stations
gbpvr looks at the guide tv station name then looks to see what tuner is available it doesnt care if its digital or analog if they have the same guide data
as long as that tuner can record the station it will do so
the only other way to do it is to disable the stations you dont want that tuner to record
say you get movies on stations 1,2,3 then make the the digital tuner enabled to record on 1,2,3
where as the news and crap programs that the quality doesnt matter on is on 4,5,6 mainly then only enable the analog tuners for 4,5,6

no it does not indicate in the guide which are digital

as for watching live it will start at the bottom of your tuner list(in config) and works its way to to what ever tuner has that station enabled and available(not recording)
when recording its starts from the top of the list
so if you had all stations enabled but wanted to use the digital tuners first then you would have them at the top in your tuners

you can also add tuners more than once (same physical tuner but entered twice on the list )
so your list could look like this
#1dvb1600 digital (same tuner as number 4)
#2dvb1600 digital
#3pvr150 analog
#4dvb1600 digital (same tuner as number 1)

at the bottom of your list tuner #4 will be used to watch live tv if its available

[khaver]

I have an Angel II Dual Tuner connected to analog cable and an HVR-2250 recording ClearQAM. I use the Yapi2xml utility for my EPG. I set up Yapi in 2 seperate directories. One directory called YapiSD is for analog over cable and the other, YapiHD, is for the ClearQAM. The analog side is easy. Just have the Yapi in the SD directory download for analog cable and have GBPVR analog tuner use that XMLTV file. On the HD side it's a little harder. Since the Yahoo TV only has listings for digital cable and not Over The Air or QAM, I use Yapi in the HD directory to download the digital cable XMLTV file and in GBPVR my 2250 tuner uses that XMLTV file but then I also have to map the digital channels to the guide by hand. So my TV guide shows both the analog stations and the digital ones I mapped. It took a while but once set up it's working good.

Does anyone know how to reorder the stations in the guide? I would like to have each digital station adjacent to its matching analog station. Also, a few of the analog stations are showing up mixed in with the digital ones.

Sub, a nice feature would be to be able to integrate the analog and digital EPGs together and have some sort of marker in the EPG showing there's a digital channel available and when you go to record it it gives you an option to record from the digital channel.

[roy]

I have analog cable and ATSC. I use Schedules Direct, and have two different lineups, one for the cable and one for OTA. I use I-Xmltv to download both lineups and each tuner uses the properly assigned guide data. You can arrange the channels as you like in the config app using any number scheme. I use 2-99 for analog and 102-199 for ATSC just to put them in the order I like. although it does take some playing to figure this stuff out.

[rob11252]

I have 3 HAUPPAUGE capture cards. two 1600 and one older 150. I have standard analog cable ......

Nice, you have 5 tuners available. If I had all of that and enough space in my computer to install all 3 cards, I would do the following:
Split the cable from ATSC antenna into 3, hook up one to TV and 2 to digital inputs of 1600's. Then split analog cable to 3
and hook it up to 150 and analog inputs of 1600's. This way I could record 5 channels simultaneously and watch digital (on TV) or record 4 channels and watch 1 analog from cable.
As for EPG, you can use different sources for each of your tuners but I would choose just one. I use yapi2XML.
From Yahoo API I would pick Comcast Southeast-Detroit Digital which lists the HD and SD channels separately (for example ABC-SD is 7-WXYZ and ABC-HD is 231-WXYZDT). YApi2XML has Channel Remapper, so I would list ABC-HD as Ch7 and ABC-SD as channel 107 in my guide. This way my guide would list few channels twice (as HD and SD) but I have more control in choosing quality of recording. Occasionally I would have to resolve conflicts manually, but only if there is something to record on 3 digital channels! Plus, Yahoo gives EPG for 2 weaks, so there is plenty of time to look for conflicts. Map channels on each of the tuners using wiki:
http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Confi...HDTVSource.

As a matter of fact, the only network which has different schedule for analog and digital is PBS. This you have to list twice. Others - don't matter. If you show digital tuners on top of your list in config, GBPVR should pick digital tuner first, and if a channel is not available on digital or tuner is recording, then it will search down the list.

[dc9mm]

[quote=rob11252]:
http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Confi...HDTVSource.

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Ok looking at the link above it seems pretty straight forward. I use the Mc2xml for my epg now and it works great for the analog cable. Right now i have a folder in the GBPVR software called EPG were the bat file and the Mc2xml program is. So i would need to make a sub folder in that folder and put another Mc2xml in there but setup to get the digital over the air channels. When i set the EPG software up i would choose number 6 right?


right now the bat file i made for the EPG has this in it
C:
cd "C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR\EPG"
mc2xml -c us -g 14150

but now i will make a subfolder to the EPG folder so i guess i need the bat file to have this in it?
C:
cd "C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR\EPG\EPG"
mc2xml -c us -g 14150
So when GBPVR runs the update epg it will run both the C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR\EPG and the C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR\EPG\EPG folder??