I’ve set up my Hauppauge tuner which supports ATSC/QAM formats. The channel scan only seems to allow for digital QAM stations which it picked up. Is is possible to add the ATSC stations as well?
ATSC signals are digital signals received by a TV antenna. QAM signals are digital as well and come from your cable company – they are either unencrytped (clear QAM) or encrypted.
What do you have your tuner connected to? Antenna or cable?
Ah yes, you’re right. I haven’t dealt with these terms and acronyms in quite some time–but I’m running cable with no antenna. It picks up the clear QAM stations, but not the analog cable stations, which I would also like.
I suspect that the issue is that that tuner (you don’t say which one precisely) doesn’t tune analog cable (NTSC) channels.
i have a dual hd tuner from hauppague and it picks up the analog cable just fine through wintv but not plex.
Thanks for the replies. I was less specific, just wondering if Plex even supported NTSC channels. I’m running a Hauppague WinTV-HVR-1250, which supports NTSC and it does work when running Windows MCE. I noticed when I go through setup that Plex detecs my tuner as a Haappague quadHD which only supports digital stations, so maybe that’s the reason–but I can’t find a way to select the correct tuner. Are there options for this?
im starting to believe this is a plex issue not hardware.
Plex doesn’t work with analogue signals, only digital.
Is there a reason for this? It’s literally the only software/hardware combo that doesn’t work. Eliminates Plex as an option for me.
The largest reason is probably to not put time into supporting a dead technology. NTSC is at best 480i and if you can get it it is only because your cable company has converted those digital signals to analog for your compatibility. Allot of providers are just forcing users to get a digital converter box.
At this point you won’t find analog OTA TV anymore. it was forcefully phased out years ago to recover the OTA wireless spectrum.
How about analog over cable? I have Hauppauge WinTV-HVR=955Q that plex.tv says is compatible. I have it setup and running correctly in the Hauppauge WinTV application (see screenshot).
Whenever I try to scan within Plex it gives me an incorrect inventory of the channels. I have tried with and without WinTV installed. All the drivers are up to date. I have scanned on Cable and Antenna. Nothing seems to work.
Also, I have SiliconDust HD HomeRun but because plex.tv can’t handle DRM I am restricted to non-protected content. SD makes a good app and DVR but it will only play on DRM protected devices that have HDRC built into them.
This is all for home use and not for commercial. Any help you can provide on getting access to my analog channels - which oddly are DRM protected on the SDHR - would be appreciated.
As stated above, Plex does not work with analog channels regardless if it’s OTA or cable.
Where is the disclaimer about the analog channels? I just finished dumping time and money into this Plex DVR project only to find this out now…
Top of the Plex Live TV & DVR page states it works with “digital broadcast channels”: https://www.plex.tv/features/live-tv-dvr/.
In fairness that page is geared to OTA “broadcast” and doesn’t mention Cable at all digital or analog.
Analog OTA broadcast is long gone in the USA so it’s a mute point for OTA (in USA). But on cable it’s a different story as some cable companies do still use analog channels and I think it’s fair to say most DVRs record them as well. Plex is sort of an odd ball in this arena.
With that said, I bet if you get a “digital” package from your cable provider you will have digital and/or HD versions of those analog channels.
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@duxsmer said:
I can’t even get this **** to work with your favorite free HDTV digital broadcast channels.
NTSC is not digital. If you’re actually trying to get this to work with digital channels, then 1) start a new thread and 2) include the following information: a) tuner b) tv provider c) server os and d) pms version
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