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A recent Mythtv user, I have been going through a lot of effort to get my (Comcast) channel lineup associated with the program data that I get from SchedulesDirect. Now there is help for people like me. Due to the fact that Comcast is distributing little Digital to Analog converters (along with their switchover to DTV broadcasts), they are now distributing the channel info in-band which makes it available to us. More specifically, there is a project on sourceforge with the tools for grabbing this info and putting it into your Mythtv database. See http://scte65scan.sourceforge.net/ >From the website: Scans for in-band SCTE 65 tables. Allows automatic mapping of virtual channel numbers to callsigns and physical channels. Useful for the transition from analog CATV to digital CATV. Comcast is one such cable provider making these tables available. p.s. You'll see the acronym 'POD'. I had no idea what that stood for, so I looked it up. POD stands for Point Of Deployment and is an actual ANSI standard in the world of Cable Television ANSI/SCTE 28 2007 Host-POD Interface Standard http://www.scte.org/content/index.cfm?pID=59 for gory details on that. -- Greg Rundlett Web Developer - Initiative in Innovative Computing http://iic.harvard.edu camb 617-384-5872 nbpt 978-225-8302 m. 978-764-4424 -skype/aim/irc/twitter freephile http://profiles.aim.com/freephile
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