--- "Andy Walls" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 21:04 -0400, Jeff Campbell wrote: > > -Is the configuration process as simple as scanning for channels and > > then selecting one via a v4l-ctl (if working from the command line)? > > No. You've got to build a scan file for your cable provider or OTA > locality.
And you might find something of use here: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Working_QAM_cable_layout (If not, feel free to contribute) > > -Any antennas you have had particularly good luck with (or anyone else > > who wants to chime in)? > > In the US, most stations are digital on UHF freq's. Once the DTV > cutover is complete, some stations will migrate back to their VHF > assignments. But many won't. WGBH-TV ch 2 in Boston, for example, will remain on UHF/19, and merely PSIP back to "Channel 2"... thus making another mapping "'channel number' to frequency band, and thus antenna" useless. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [email protected] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Start a man a fire, and he'll be warm all night. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
