[GLLUG] Broadcast Format, Cable TV? Free to Air TV?
vanek
vanek at acd.net
Thu Dec 10 14:30:37 EST 2009
I don't use Kaffeine but maybe I can help.
QAM 256 is the signal you get straight out of the broadband RF cable
that most cable companies provide. (If your cable company uses a
high-degree of compression in may be a QAM64 signal.)
I'm not sure how you are hooking your system up. There are at least 3 ways.
1. to the RF cable, which is most likely a QAM 256 signal (some of the
channels are encrypted, some are not)
2. to your cable box, which provides an /analog/ output signal sent out
through one or more of the following ports/jacks:
Composite video
Component video
S-Video
RF broadband cable
3. to an over-the-air antenna, which is a digital, ATSC signal.
Assuming that you're hooking directly to your cable company's cable,
then I think the us-Cable-Standard-center-frequencies-QAM 256 should
work. The trick is, if one frequency file doesn't work try another until
you find one that matches what your cable company is sending. Sometimes
the quickest way is to just try things until they work.
The following links may be of help.
Adding Digital Cable Channels
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Adding_QAM_Channels_For_HDTV_Tuner_Cards
http://forum.eeebuntu.org/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=1818
If you are interested in OTA (Over-The-Air) signals, then you can see
which stations are close to you by going to TitanTV.com and entering
your zip code and look at the TV schedule. Then you can go to
http://www.antennaweb.org/aw/welcome.aspx, click on "Choose an antenna"
and fill out the form, and it will show you exactly where every OTA
station is in relation to where you live.
Good luck.
Joel Mayer wrote:
> Broadcast Format, Cable TV? Free To Air TV?
> Dear Karl and Vanek-
> When I try to scan for channels in SuSE Linux 11.1 with my Kaffeine
> TV application. The software package offers me a dozen or so mysterious
> formats such as:
> us-Cable-Standard-center-frequencies-QAM 256, and:
> us-Cable-IRC-center-frequencies-QAM 256, and so on, and so forth.
> Can either of you two gentlemen tell us which format Broadcast Cable
> uses in Williamston Michigan? Do you know which format I should scan
> with for free to air digital television out of Lansing and Detroit?
> Thanks / Joel Mayer / joelm_audion at msn.com <mailto:joelm_audion at msn.com>
>
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 21:50:14 -0500
> From: Karl Schuttler <rexykik at gmail.com <mailto:rexykik at gmail.com>>
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> Subject: Re: [GLLUG] comcast outages
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> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Charles Ulrich
> <charles at bityard.net <mailto:charles at bityard.net>> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, December 9, 2009 7:36 pm, Stanley C. Mortel wrote:
> >> Just F.Y.I. ?If you are having problems with your cable TV or
> Internet,
> >> be aware that there is a Comcast sub-station on fire disrupting
> service
> >> throughout the state, mainly in western Michigan. ?I only post
> this so
> >> that folks don't waste a bunch of time (on hold) trying to contact
> >> Comcast to resolve a problem (like I just did)! ?Of course, if your
> >> internet is down you wont be reading this in time for it to do
> you any
> >> good. ?;-)
> >
> > Guess that's what they mean by "blazing fast connections". *bum-tsh*
> >
> >
> http://www.comcast.com/corporate/Learn/HighSpeedInternet/highspeedinternet.html
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> Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:57:59 -0500
> From: vanek <vanek at acd.net <mailto:vanek at acd.net>>
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> Subject: Re: [GLLUG] comcast outages
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> Stanley C. Mortel wrote:
> > Just F.Y.I. If you are having problems with your cable TV or
> > Internet, be aware that there is a Comcast sub-station on fire
> > disrupting service throughout the state, mainly in western
> Michigan.
> > I only post this so that folks don't waste a bunch of time (on
> hold)
> > trying to contact Comcast to resolve a problem (like I just
> did)! Of
> > course, if your internet is down you wont be reading this in
> time for
> > it to do you any good. ;-)
> >
> > Stan
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> changing my DNS server to 8.8.4.4 (google) today helped me. Don't
> know
> if it had anything to do with this kerfuffle.
> Lou Vanek
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> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:19:13 -0500
> From: "Stanley C. Mortel" <mortel at cyber-nos.com
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> To: GLLUG <linux-user at egr.msu.edu <mailto:linux-user at egr.msu.edu>>
> Subject: [GLLUG] Neural Networks Presentation this Thursday, 12/10/09
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> Neural Networks for the non-technical
> Dr. Stanley C. Mortel
>
> Heard about neural networks? Not sure what they are or how they
> work?
> Or why? This presentation will provide a thoroughly
> non-technical (no
> math) introduction to this fascinating topic. A very basic type of
> neural network will be presented and the functional aspects will be
> related back to human perception and cognition. Along the way, we
> look
> at visual perception, including some illusions, and the underlying
> neural architecture. The goal is to provide a basic, conceptual
> understanding of neural networks, then to relate the principles of an
> abstract neural network to the human nervous system.
>
> Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009 6:45 p.m.
> Capital Area District Library - Downtown Lansing - 3rd floor.
> See http://www.gllug.org for details.
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