[mythtv-users] CCI=none vs. CCI=any SF Bay Area

Kirk Bocek t004 at kbocek.com
Fri Apr 26 17:02:21 UTC 2013


On 4/26/2013 9:58 AM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>> From: Kirk Bocek
>> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 11:33 AM
>>
>> It looks to me like Comcast has changed the CCI flag from what was
>> previously reported as "any" to what is now reported as "none." Isn't this
> a
>> problem for Myth? I think this is the difference between the flag being
> set to
>> 0xff (copy any) and not being present at all and that Myth has a problem
> if it
>> entirely missing.
> As I understand it, 'any' means we can access it explicitly, while 'none'
> means
> there is no CCI code and it falls back to older forms of copy protection
> flagging
> that may be in use, such as CGMS.  If those stations are independently
> flagging
> their content coming across their feed to the cable headend, the cablecard
> tuner will refuse MythTV access.
>

However, I'm recording these channels on my classic HD Homerun which of 
course has no cablecard. Recording was working just fine up until the 
channels were moved. I'm just using the Prime for information gathering.




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