[mythtv-users] Firewire and 5c

[Eric Smith]

Did anyone ever find any resolution/info on this post.  I just recently
moved and now have Comcast and a STB that is reporting 5c off on all
channels.  However as some other people have seen, I am still only able to
get the main OTA channels from firewire.  Ugh!

On 4/11/07, Len Reed <crunchyfrog at charter.net> wrote:
>
> Chris Funk wrote:
> >     Been a number of months since I had Comcast, but IIRC, the screen
> >     with the important info was the Channel Status one (or if not that,
> >     one of the other lower-numbered ones).  There was a line that said
> >     either ENC or 0x43, depending on whether the channel would be
> >     readable thru firewire.
>
> I think that ENC is a false marker, likely correlated with 5C for most
> channels but not the same.  I don't have Comcast, but I do have a
> DCT6200 and the screen shot is the same as the one posted earlier in
> this thread.  See below for what I see about 0x43.
>
> As far as I can tell, ENC means encrypted.  Channels marked ENC
> correspond exactly to those that my HD5000 DVB card cannot tune.  Those
> unENCrypted (local channels) work both on the HD5000 DVB card and over
> firewire.  There are a few channels, though, that are marked ENC but
> that still work on firewire.  (MTVHD is one.)
>
> What's causing me to tear my hair out is that a week ago I swear that
> the box had all but those few channels and the non-ENC marked 5C.  In
> fact, that is how I discovered that those channels should work over
> firewire: they were not marked 5C but most others were.  Now, though,
> d11 page 3 shows 5C off for all channels that I've checked.  Every
> single one!  The entire d11 page 3 menu for IEEE1394 is the same for
> every channel I've checked.  Still, though, firewire only works on the
> unencrypted channels and that same handful of the encrypted ones.  This
> leads me to think that I saw accurate 5C status elsewhere in the menus,
> but I've looked at every single page.  Maybe I dreamt it.
>
> d06 shows the following under authorization (digital channels only):
> 0x12 encrypted channels
> 0x43 clear channels
> 0x40 unauthorized channels (those I don't subscribe to)
>
> Since I don't believe in magic, there must be something in the channel
> setup that prevents the bulk of the digital channels from going out over
> firewire.  Obviously, though, the status pages could be incorrectly
> displaying 5C status.  Or maybe I'm just missing where it is even though
> I found it once before.  Weird.
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