Digital Channels (1 Viewer)

[kMan]

Hi all,
First, I'll put out the fact that I'm a Newbie to the Media Portal software, but I am computer literate.

I have a Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1800 installed in a dou-core system running Windows XP Pro. I am in the Vancouver, Canada area and use a Shaw cable system. Using the MediaPortal - TV Server configuration I am able to scan and recieve all the Analog channels in my area, but the Digital channels are a no show? I do reviece these channels using my Shaw cable box so I am subscribed to the Digital service.

If I scan for channels using the "ATSC WinTV 885 BDA Tuner" and "QAM Standard" I get channels but they don't have a signal and show up as "Unknown 517250-30", "Unknown 517250-31", "Unknown 517250-32", etc and when I preview them I get a "no audio/video detected" message.

One other thing that may be relevant, I have my cable wire coming from the wall to a splitter, then one cable line to the "TV/Cable Ant" input on the card and the other coming from the splitter as well to the "DTV Ant" input on the card.

Any help would be appriciated
Thanks

 

[Firin]

Same Problem With SHAW Digital

I'm havin same problem as u now, did u eva got that problem solved..?? I'm also using Shaw Digital Box and located at Edmonton and i have same tv card tuner "WinTV HVR-1800"... Is there any way of tunin to my digital channels. I have tried it with Windows Media Center, and had no problem gettin those channels. Is there a solution to my problem...?? Thank U in advance.....

 

[etheesdad]

please provide more info. system specs, logs, etc

 

[chesh]

Unfortunately the solution is to click on every one of those channels and click preview, find which ones work (sometimes it'll take clicking preview up to 3-10 times before you'll get anything), make a list, delete the ones that don't, then previewing those channels again and matching them up with a TV guide of what is currently on. Trust me, it's a huge pain in the a$$, and if Shaw cable is anything like Comcast, you can expect that you'll have to do this about every 3-6 months as they'll get a wild hair up their butt and change the whole QAM lineup on you. I've written an extensive guide over in the ATSC owners thread (it's for having a HD-PVR and a HVR-XXXX tuner card, but the premise is the same). Just check out my previous posts. Should give ya a starting point.

 

[kMan]

Hi all,
OK, I'm getting back to this issue. My wife went and had a baby, so I got side tracked.

etheesdad: I intend to add a hardware profile and subit logs, but at the moment I am in the process of changing hardware. So I will create a hardware profile when I'm done that.

My findings have been this (with repest to Digital channels); I'm using two Hauppauge tuner cards (a 1600 model and a 1800 model), they both have a "QAM/Digital TV" input as well as a "Analog Cable" input. All Analog channels can be picked up and viewed using both cards through the "Analog Cable" hookup. Now the trouble: I can can for "QAM/Digital" channels (using the "QAM Standard" option, only seems to find channels with this options), and all the Shaw (Vancouver) digital channels appear. The trouble is when I try to preview the channel in the TV Server Configuration (under "TV Channels") I get a message saying the channel is scrambled. (Preview failed:ChannelIsScrambled).

So, I conclude with what appears to be an issue where Shaw Cable is scambling the digital channels and you must have the Shaw cable box to decode and watch them. I do have this box and it looks as if I will have to use the IR Blaster to control it an hook the output of the Shaw box to the Hauppauge tuner card so as to allow me to record digital channels.

I'm not sure the logic behind scambling digital channels?? Anyone know why they do this? or better yet does someone know a way around it? It's not like you are stealing the signal since you pay the monthly fee for these channels.

Anyway, guess I'm looking at a "IR" wiring job now... I'll put it on my "things to do" list, right after "Rid the world of all evil".

Cheers,
Kurt