[mythtv-users] Hauppauge USB CableCard Tuner for $129!

[Steven Adeff]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If you tune to the channel you want to check, and go into the diag
>> mode for that box (generally turn it off and press the menu button)
>> one of the options (d11 iirc on the Motorola boxes) will show you the
>> current "5C" status for the channel it is tuned to. it should say
>> something like "5C = 0" (zero).
>
> The 5C status and the copy control information are not guaranteed to
> be the same.  The cable cards require CCI 0x00 to decrypt and stream
> content to an untrusted party.  They don't care about 5C.  Most of the
> time, these values will be heavily correlated, but not always.
>
> Note that CCI may be set to a non-zero value even on an unencrypted
> channel.  The cable card will block access to these, even though you
> could have gotten them with an ordinary clear-qam tuner.

ah, I wasn't aware the CCI and 5C code differed.


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