[mythtv-users] firewire can't get all HDTV channels

[Allan Wilson]

On 5/18/06, Allan Wilson <allanwilson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Well I successfully got Myth setup to work with my SA3250HD cable box's
> firewire port and I can receive HD content and change channels for the
> following stations:
>
> espn, discovery, nbc, fox
>
> but I cannot get
>
> pbs, cbs, abc
>
> through firewire. I have firewire ports on my television and those
> channels work fine so I don't think they are encrypting those channels. I
> can see the channel changes being made on the cable box to go to those
> channels so I know that it is going to the right station. I tested on a
> lower level using test-mpeg2 on those channels and I get no data but if I
> use  sa3250ch to change the channel to say nbc and run test-mpeg2 again it
> works fine. I have no idea why it is working on some and not others. Does
> anyone have any ideas?
>
> Allan
>

Just to update my original problem in case anyone else runs across it.
Tongiht my firewire stopped working so I ended unplugging the firewire cable
for 1 min then plugged back in ran all the plugctl commands to reset
everything and now I am getting all my HD stations. I think the biggest
thing to work with when doing this firewire stuff is to constantly hard
reboot your cable box when you are playing with it and constantly use the
plugctl command recommended in the firewire wiki to reset everything through
software then once you have it working don't touch anything.

Allan
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