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airban /forum/post/20831240
I'm not sure which screen you are talking about with a pulldown menu.
I've set things up exactly like the tutorial above, but as I've said, not all are coming in like they are on WinTv. WinTv's interface is terrible, so I'd like to get this figured out.
The pulldown menu is in the upper left of the page so you can choose OTA or your available providers(TMC, Cox, Comcast, FiOS, etc.). It's was showing 8VSP because you were on the list of OTA channels for your zip, it will likely show QAM256 for your local cable providers.
I didn't notice if your signal is from OTA or cable, but WMC looks for identifying data for any channels not just for signals as it uses that to link it to guide data(KCSB-DT, USA, etc.) if WMC isn't reporting finding the channels it's because the local stations or your provider isn't brodcasting the identifying data for those channels.
The last few times I did channel scans for my clearQAM tuner 7MC found 0 because FiOS had stopped sending identifying data for some reason, though legally they're required to due to the number of channels they offer, prior to that it only found a little over 30, yet my HDhomerun software will find around 100. The hdhomerun has a file you can run that will sync all the channels it finds into 7MC maybe your WinTV software has something similar.
BTW there's another way to add the missing channels, though WMC might show it didn't find the channels what it really means is it didn't assign those channels to the guide data, you goto edit channels menu and it will list all the freq that WMC found signals on, you can then use the Silcondust site to get the identifying data and channel number for each freq then enable that freq and link it to the guide data.