DeathbyPutz
Limp Gawd
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Background: I've been working on setting up a whole-home dvr using WMC and a couple of Hauppauge 2250's on my Windows 7 server with an Asus Chromebox flashed with XBMC for a front-end.
Currently, my TV (LG 60PN5700) is plugged directly into coax split from my cable modem through an amplified coax splitter. Just using the LG tv's built-in tv tuner, I'm able to pull roughly 75 channels (analog and QAM - a mix of HD and SD). My LG tv had no trouble placing the channels in the proper places (local ABC on 3.1, NBC on 5.1, etc).
When I run coax from that same amplified splitter to my Hauppauge 2250 card, WMC isn't grabbing even close to the same number of channels. I went into the guide setup and enabled all of the channels that it wasn't able to pull station ID's for, but after a few hours of digging I'm still coming up short on channels like local NBC. WMC has mapped 5.1 to some UHF public access station despite the guide being for the proper cable area.
My first bit of confusion is why WMC is having so much trouble getting station ID information off of my cable signal, when the LG tv was able to pull it. A perfect example is HGTV: the LG tv tuner successfully found the channel, assigned the correct virtual channel number to it (49), and labeled it "HGTV." I find it hard to believe that the station ID information is missing if the LG tv can pull it without any sync'ed up guide or manual input.
Does anyone know if there's a way to see the channel information that my TV is using (QAM channel, frequency, anything) and use that to manually tune the channels through WMC?
I've also noticed that some of the channels that the LG tv is picking up (neither of the two mentioned above) have small "lock" icons associated with them on their info screen. Usually that means that they would be scrambled, but the tv is tuning into them loud and clear.
I haven't been able to find a QAM channel listing for Time Warner in my area. Does anyone know of an online database that's up-to-date?
I'm scratching my head trying to get my WMC to just come close to what my TV can do... so that I can eventually start doing things like using the DVR function that spawned this whole endeavor.
Any ideas?
Currently, my TV (LG 60PN5700) is plugged directly into coax split from my cable modem through an amplified coax splitter. Just using the LG tv's built-in tv tuner, I'm able to pull roughly 75 channels (analog and QAM - a mix of HD and SD). My LG tv had no trouble placing the channels in the proper places (local ABC on 3.1, NBC on 5.1, etc).
When I run coax from that same amplified splitter to my Hauppauge 2250 card, WMC isn't grabbing even close to the same number of channels. I went into the guide setup and enabled all of the channels that it wasn't able to pull station ID's for, but after a few hours of digging I'm still coming up short on channels like local NBC. WMC has mapped 5.1 to some UHF public access station despite the guide being for the proper cable area.
My first bit of confusion is why WMC is having so much trouble getting station ID information off of my cable signal, when the LG tv was able to pull it. A perfect example is HGTV: the LG tv tuner successfully found the channel, assigned the correct virtual channel number to it (49), and labeled it "HGTV." I find it hard to believe that the station ID information is missing if the LG tv can pull it without any sync'ed up guide or manual input.
Does anyone know if there's a way to see the channel information that my TV is using (QAM channel, frequency, anything) and use that to manually tune the channels through WMC?
I've also noticed that some of the channels that the LG tv is picking up (neither of the two mentioned above) have small "lock" icons associated with them on their info screen. Usually that means that they would be scrambled, but the tv is tuning into them loud and clear.
I haven't been able to find a QAM channel listing for Time Warner in my area. Does anyone know of an online database that's up-to-date?
I'm scratching my head trying to get my WMC to just come close to what my TV can do... so that I can eventually start doing things like using the DVR function that spawned this whole endeavor.
Any ideas?