[mythtv-users] Firewire unstable.

Aaron Russell aaron at therussells.me
Tue Feb 21 20:16:46 UTC 2012


Thanks everyone.

I think what im gonna do is try and get a another box from verizon and see
how that goes. If i still have problems buy the dcr 2620 or hd homerun
prime.

The channels i am able to record from the box now has been alot. And almost
all hd versions. So lets hope that stays that way.

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Aaron Russell <aaron at therussells.me>
> wrote:
> > I have another question about these solutions. Am i restricted by the
> same
> > 5c encryption i find on firewire?
>
> Sort of.  The cable cards don't use 5C encryption, but instead refuse
> to send data to untrusted hosts (basically anything not Windows 7) if
> the copy control flags on the broadcast are not set to 0 (copy
> freely).
>
> It's usually the case the set of things theoretically recordable by
> mythtv using firewire is the same as the set of things recordable with
> a cable card as most cable boxes enable 5C encryption under the same
> circumstances, but there can be some rare cases where they are
> different.
>
> Eric
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