Windows > Television
ATSC 3.0 Support
atc98092:
--- Quote from: tzr916 on February 20, 2023, 05:43:24 pm ---I have not gone as far as deleting any tuners from my primary OTA profile, because all tuners in the box can do ATSC 1.0 instead I just made a second, new profile just for ATSC 3.0
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When I look at my tuner info, it doesn't say anything about DMS or BDA. Is there a setting on the tuner itself that isn't showing the hardware correctly in MC? Or is there a setting in MC that I missed when I upgraded to the HDHR Flex 4K as my tuner?
JimH:
TV Setup:
https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/TV_Setup
TV Tuners:
https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/TV_Tuners
Yaobing:
--- Quote from: atc98092 on February 21, 2023, 04:16:46 pm ---When I look at my tuner info, it doesn't say anything about DMS or BDA. Is there a setting on the tuner itself that isn't showing the hardware correctly in MC? Or is there a setting in MC that I missed when I upgraded to the HDHR Flex 4K as my tuner?
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Sorry about the confusion. When we initially developed TV tuner support over 20 years ago, there were analog OTA and analog Cable channels. The tuners were Analog Tuners. Shortly after that we started having digital TV. These were supported on Windows only, using Microsoft bda architecture. These tuners are called "digital" tuners in MC. In MC setup, they are under "Antenna (over the air)" service type. ATSC devices are originally bda only. The DVB devices used in other countries are similar in that they are supported as bda devices.
Some of these tuners are network devices and support network protocols, giving us the ability to support them in Mac and Linux. These are under the service type of "Streaming (from a network tuner or from the Internet)". DMS stands for Digital Media Server, and is available with one of these network devices.
For ATSC 3.0, it appears that bda is just not updated to handle the new format. Thus we rely on devices such as HDHomeRun to do the tuning and we just get the stream from the device via DMS.
In television setup, choose "Streaming (from a network tuner or from the Internet)" for Service type, and choose "Tuner Stream" for Tuner type. Tuner Stream is just another way of saying "DMS". Sorry for all these confusing terms.
From there you should be able to complete the setup by following the wizard.
Yaobing:
Another thing that is important to mention:
DMS/Tuner Stream devices are network tuners, and requires enabling of Media Network feature of MC.
Tools/Options -> Media Network, check the checkbox "Use Media Network to share this library and enable DLNA". Under Advanced, make sure all three DLNA checkboxes are checked.
Once this is enabled, each time you start/restart MC, you need to wait a little bit for MC to discover all the network devices before you start running TV setup.
atc98092:
OK, I've got it now. I was confused because my tuners were already visible on my network as DLNA sources, but MC wasn't configured correctly to use them. Thanks for the detailed info, I now have them available as both types. I've still a bit of config left to do, as it's now showing all ATSC 1.0 stations twice, but I can figure out the best way to work that out and not mess with any existing recording schedules.
Thanks to all!
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