comcast qam

[drewg]

Anybody have luck with getting "extended" channels via Comcast QAM? In my area, comcast has got a few things (TNT-HD, Food-HD) available in clear QAM. However, I cannot get the Linux version of SageTV to tune them. Everything else I've tried (TV's built-in tuner, SageTV trial on Windows, HDHR gui, MythTV) can tune these channels just fine.

When I try to tune these channels & I enable Native logging, I see:

08/22/2011 10:53:13 *********** PARSER STATUS: STREAM START ***********
08/22/2011 10:53:13 *********** PARSER STATUS: PARSING STREAM ***********
08/22/2011 10:53:13 PMT-MAP Table is updated
08/22/2011 10:53:13 PAT-0:Program (total channel:3, tsid:33006 )
08/22/2011 10:53:13     PMT pid:0x0030 program:0004
08/22/2011 10:53:13     PMT pid:0x0031 program:0005
08/22/2011 10:53:13     PMT pid:0x0032 program:0006
08/22/2011 10:53:13     Channel:2 (tsid:33006) PMT pid:0x0031
Program:0005 PCR pid:0x0800 .
08/22/2011 10:53:13             Type:0x80 Pid:0x800
08/22/2011 10:53:13             Type:0x81 Pid:0x801
08/22/2011 10:53:13             Type:0x86 Pid:0x802
08/22/2011 10:53:13             Type:0xc0 Pid:0x803
08/22/2011 10:53:13             Type:0xc0 Pid:0x804
08/22/2011 10:53:13     Channel:3 (tsid:33006) PMT pid:0x0032
Program:0006 PCR pid:0x0840 CA pid:0x0432.
08/22/2011 10:53:13             Type:0x80 Pid:0x840
08/22/2011 10:53:13             Type:0x81 Pid:0x841
08/22/2011 10:53:13             Type:0x86 Pid:0x842
08/22/2011 10:53:13             Type:0xc0 Pid:0x843
08/22/2011 10:53:13             Type:0xc0 Pid:0x844
08/22/2011 10:53:13     Channel:1 (tsid:33006) PMT pid:0x0030
Program:0004 PCR pid:0x07c0 CA pid:0x0430.
08/22/2011 10:53:13             Type:0x80 Pid:0x7c0
08/22/2011 10:53:13             Type:0x81 Pid:0x7c1
08/22/2011 10:53:13             Type:0x86 Pid:0x7c2
08/22/2011 10:53:35 *********** PARSER STATUS: STREAM FAILED (slot:0):
err=100 ***********
08/22/2011 10:54:54  DTVChannel setOutputFile outputFile:0x0 size:0

My first guess (from looking at vlc output) is that some PIDs have invalid types (0xc0), and that is what is confusing SageTV. Is there a way to just ignore the invalid PIDs?

Thanks,

Drew

[drewg]

Turns out something about the scan was faulty. Qian pointed out to me that I should manually edit my .frq file for that tuner and add the missing stations. Once I did that, I could then add them in the GUI. Once I did that, I had all my stations.

Drew