[mythtv-users] Music channels on Comcast cable

William Jacoby bonelifer at gmail.com
Sat Nov 9 21:41:47 UTC 2013


On 11/9/2013 3:17 PM, Mark E. Mallett wrote:
> While setting up CableCARD today, I noticed that I have a lot of music
> channels available now. They are all encrypted but they are available to
> my subscription.  I tried some of them but they are
> unwatchable/unlistenable.  A recording is made, but mythfrontend jumps
> and skips through it very rapidly, playing snatches as if it is
> fast-forwarding at 10x or so and trying to show a sequence of still
> video frames. Yet if I take the mpg file and play it with mplayer, it
> sounds fine but there is no video content at all).
>
> I get pretty much the same sort of mpg file if I just grab the stream
> directly with the homerun utility.  Using the gui to note the channel
> and program number that was tuned by mythtv, I do, e.g.:
>
>     hdhomerun_config [ip-address] set /tuner1/channel 117
>     hdhomerun_config [ip-address] set /tuner1/program 50
>     hdhomerun_config [ip-address] save /tuner1 mc.mpg
>       [wait a while ... ^C]
>     hdhomerun_config [ip-address] set /tuner1/channel none
>     mplayer mc.mpg
>
> and there it is again, music and no video.
>
> What should I do to convince mythfrontend to play it?
>
> BTW, trying to watch one of these live is even worse; mythfrontend locks
> up and I have to kill it.
>
> mm
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Don't have Comcast, but my cable provider has a set of audio only music 
channels. Maybe this is the case here.


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