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<blockquote data-quote="WalkmanAA" data-source="post: 699141" data-attributes="member: 28642">Yeah when I first started with mediaportal and qam it was frustrating at best. But I have also developed a system for quickly getting the right channels. Type in your zip code into this site <a href="http://www.silicondust.com/support/channels/" target="_blank">silicondust support channels</a> Select the cable you have and all channels that are clear will come up (w/ pictures) and you can see the channel # to the side in 119-547 format for example. 119 would be the physical channel and you would match it up with the table here <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_cable_television_frequencies" target="_blank">North_American_cable_television_frequencies</a> 119 is 763.25mhz or 763250 like you will see in mediaportal. After finding all the frequencies that have useful channels you make your own qam.xml file in TuningParameters/atsc which is located in the same programdata folder where the log files for tvserver are. Just follow the format of the existing qam standard.xml file and put in all your frequencies and delete everything else. So in the future if you ever have to rescan scan with this file you made and your scans will take about 2 minutes instead of 20+ and you will have all the channels you want only. That might sound convoluted but it really saves a ton of time. I thought I would share that in case anybody else needed some tips starting out with qam and mediaportal.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WalkmanAA, post: 699141, member: 28642"] Yeah when I first started with mediaportal and qam it was frustrating at best. But I have also developed a system for quickly getting the right channels. Type in your zip code into this site [URL="http://www.silicondust.com/support/channels/"]silicondust support channels[/URL] Select the cable you have and all channels that are clear will come up (w/ pictures) and you can see the channel # to the side in 119-547 format for example. 119 would be the physical channel and you would match it up with the table here [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_cable_television_frequencies"]North_American_cable_television_frequencies[/URL] 119 is 763.25mhz or 763250 like you will see in mediaportal. After finding all the frequencies that have useful channels you make your own qam.xml file in TuningParameters/atsc which is located in the same programdata folder where the log files for tvserver are. Just follow the format of the existing qam standard.xml file and put in all your frequencies and delete everything else. So in the future if you ever have to rescan scan with this file you made and your scans will take about 2 minutes instead of 20+ and you will have all the channels you want only. That might sound convoluted but it really saves a ton of time. I thought I would share that in case anybody else needed some tips starting out with qam and mediaportal. [/QUOTE]

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