Hi folks, I hope this is the right subforum to ask this question.
I live in Portland Oregon, and subscribe to good ol' analog cable. Now a while back I bought a Hauppauge PVR-150 to use on my Win XP machine. Problem is, no matter what I do and what PVR software I try, the autodetection of the cable channels leaves quite a few of them tuned such that they have no audio. The default crappy software that came with the card at least allows one to fine tune each channel in realtime in order to pick up the audio (and it remembers the fine tuning between sessions). Problem is, the other features are rather lacking.
So I was trying to use the free MediaPortal software, but it doesn't allow fine tuning in realtime, so I have to know the frequencies in order to put them into the setup program, so that the main program will tune in the channels right with audio.
I tried the trial version of BeyondTV a few months back, but even that one didn't "just work" and it didn't have a realtime fine tuning feature, even though you'd think it would. Otherwise of course it's very slick. Does SageTV work any better?
So what I really need to know is, how can I find out the precise CATV frequencies being used by my analog cable provider, Comcast, in Portland Oregon. Tried going to their website, no go. Googled for the information, no luck either. What have you all done to pull in your analog cable with no issues?
BTW, my machine (running ordinary WinXP, SP2) has these specs:
XP64 3500+, 2 GB PC3200 RAM, 256MB GF 7800GT, ASUS A8N-E.
I live in Portland Oregon, and subscribe to good ol' analog cable. Now a while back I bought a Hauppauge PVR-150 to use on my Win XP machine. Problem is, no matter what I do and what PVR software I try, the autodetection of the cable channels leaves quite a few of them tuned such that they have no audio. The default crappy software that came with the card at least allows one to fine tune each channel in realtime in order to pick up the audio (and it remembers the fine tuning between sessions). Problem is, the other features are rather lacking.
So I was trying to use the free MediaPortal software, but it doesn't allow fine tuning in realtime, so I have to know the frequencies in order to put them into the setup program, so that the main program will tune in the channels right with audio.
I tried the trial version of BeyondTV a few months back, but even that one didn't "just work" and it didn't have a realtime fine tuning feature, even though you'd think it would. Otherwise of course it's very slick. Does SageTV work any better?
So what I really need to know is, how can I find out the precise CATV frequencies being used by my analog cable provider, Comcast, in Portland Oregon. Tried going to their website, no go. Googled for the information, no luck either. What have you all done to pull in your analog cable with no issues?
BTW, my machine (running ordinary WinXP, SP2) has these specs:
XP64 3500+, 2 GB PC3200 RAM, 256MB GF 7800GT, ASUS A8N-E.
