I have an AverMedia Hybrid Volar USB digital tuner. I am trying to have Windows Media Center provide a usable, readable guide and DVR capabilities for the boxless digital cable I receive from Time Warner. My Samsung TV has an internal tuner from which I receive all digital channels I purchase. The channels are, for example, 32-1 CBS affiliate, 11-1 ABC Affiliate, 35-28 Oxygen and so on.
When I unplug the coax from the TV's internal tuner and connect to the PC and then run WMC setup I only get 5 of the nearly 75 channels I get on the TV. I have successfully used WMC's "Edit Channels" to add about 10 more. When you use edit channels you see in the fist leftmost column the virtual channel numbers that one would see on Time Warner digital cable TV listing. The second column is alphanumeric , for example C98.3.
How do I add a QAM channel that I currently receive with no issue when the coax is plugged into the TV's tuner? How can I find out what Cxx.xxx number I need to specify for, say, the Discovery channel? Surely someone maintains a list. I have called Time Warner and spent 2 hours and they say this is the biggest mystery in the known universe. That the Cxx.xxx refers to the channel frequency which always changes.
I do not believe the Cxx.xx designation one sees when editing channels in WMC is a frequency. I think it is a hard coded designation that for some reason must be mapped to the virtual channel number that shows up on the TV guides.
When Googling this issue I see many references to a SiliconDust channel server or list but when I hit that link, and I have from several websites now, that page no longer exists. Apparently it at one time had a mapping from the Cxx.xx to the network for each local digital cable company in the US.
Can anyone help? I would love to use the WMC channel listing guide and DVR capabilities, the guide more so as there is no easy way to see what is on when with boxless digital cable.
And no, LinuxBob has no interest in using Myth TV with its front ends and back ends. WMC is a great product.
When I unplug the coax from the TV's internal tuner and connect to the PC and then run WMC setup I only get 5 of the nearly 75 channels I get on the TV. I have successfully used WMC's "Edit Channels" to add about 10 more. When you use edit channels you see in the fist leftmost column the virtual channel numbers that one would see on Time Warner digital cable TV listing. The second column is alphanumeric , for example C98.3.
How do I add a QAM channel that I currently receive with no issue when the coax is plugged into the TV's tuner? How can I find out what Cxx.xxx number I need to specify for, say, the Discovery channel? Surely someone maintains a list. I have called Time Warner and spent 2 hours and they say this is the biggest mystery in the known universe. That the Cxx.xxx refers to the channel frequency which always changes.
I do not believe the Cxx.xx designation one sees when editing channels in WMC is a frequency. I think it is a hard coded designation that for some reason must be mapped to the virtual channel number that shows up on the TV guides.
When Googling this issue I see many references to a SiliconDust channel server or list but when I hit that link, and I have from several websites now, that page no longer exists. Apparently it at one time had a mapping from the Cxx.xx to the network for each local digital cable company in the US.
Can anyone help? I would love to use the WMC channel listing guide and DVR capabilities, the guide more so as there is no easy way to see what is on when with boxless digital cable.
And no, LinuxBob has no interest in using Myth TV with its front ends and back ends. WMC is a great product.