On Friday 29 May 2009 21:26:39 Christopher Rutter wrote: > On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) < > g...@freephile.com> wrote: > > > A recent Mythtv user, I have been going through a lot of effort to get > > my (Comcast) channel lineup associated with the program data that I > > get from SchedulesDirect. Now there is help for people like me. Due > > to the fact that Comcast is distributing little Digital to Analog > > converters (along with their switchover to DTV broadcasts), they are > > now distributing the channel info in-band which makes it available to > > us. > > > > More specifically, there is a project on sourceforge with the tools > > for grabbing this info and putting it into your Mythtv database. > > > > See http://scte65scan.sourceforge.net/ > > > > >From the website: > > Scans for in-band SCTE 65 tables. Allows automatic mapping of virtual > > channel numbers to callsigns and physical channels. Useful for the > > transition from analog CATV to digital CATV. Comcast is one such cable > > provider making these tables available. > > > > p.s. You'll see the acronym 'POD'. I had no idea what that stood for, > > so I looked it up. POD stands for Point Of Deployment and is an > > actual ANSI standard in the world of Cable Television > > ANSI/SCTE 28 2007 Host-POD Interface Standard > > http://www.scte.org/content/index.cfm?pID=59 for gory details on that. > > > Very interesting... > I've been trying to get my MythTV setup off the ground and the reason for my > procrastination has been this (getting my channel lineup configured). I > have a HDHomeRun connected to comcast basic cable (no boxes), I read on the > SilconDust forums [1] a while back that someone has figured out a way to get > the lineup from SilconDust's resources website [2], I never pursude it > because I thought it was a sloppy solution, and a few people on the forums > said to avoid it if possible. > > After re-reading the forum thread it looks like SilconDust has built an API > for their lineup server [3], so that we might be able to use that instead of > the python scripts. > > Just curious Greg, are you using a HDHR? > Anyone out there using a HDHR?
Yes. > If so have you tried setting up your channel > lineup using this solution [1]? Nope, wasn't even aware of it. > or the solution Greg mentioned? Results? I just use SchedulesDirect with MythTV. Hunt-n-peck to manually line up anything that doesn't have station identifiers in the stream. Dunno if fios does the scte65 thing, will have to take a peek... But once the manual mapping is done once, you're pretty much done (haven't had to do that in ~2+ years). -- Jarod Wilson ja...@wilsonet.com _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
