You might want to check a local forum, to see other users' experiences with your cable system. Most cable systems leave the local channels in the clear (I have heard that this is required for them, but I don't know if that is true). The avsforum.com local reception forum usually has good info on local cable systems. If you can find which frequencies your locals are carried on, you can concentrate on those. If you have a Windows box around, you might try the Fusion card with the Windows software. They have a decent channel scanner which should show your QAM256 channels. Also, you might want to try hooking an antenna to it as an option for local reception. The demoulator on the Fusion5 is supposed to be excellent. -Todd On 8/16/05, David Engel <gigem@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 10:57:56PM -0500, David Engel wrote: > > No, I could get FR_HAS_LOCK. However, the signal was always 0000 and > > any attempts to actually capture anything resulted in a TS stream > > where mplayer couldn't find any video. > > I have to backtrack a little on this. > > Just for grins, I did a rescan for QAM256 on my cable last night. I > found 7 services, 4 of which had non-0 video pids. I tried tuning > them but still got a signal strength of 0000. I tried a capture on a > few of them anyway, and surpisingly, got something. Mac, is the > signal strength checking in the Fusion 5 driver known to work? > > I didn't recognize the programs nor channels I captured. After > unsuccessfully trying to capture some video pid 0 services, I went > back and was no longer able to find any video. It was late so I > didn't do any more. > > I'm not terribly optimistic, but I guess this warrants a more thorough > examination of every service I can detect. > > David > -- > David Engel > gigem@xxxxxxxxxxx > > _______________________________________________ > > linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb >
