[mythtv-users] h.264 question

[Kirk Bocek]

On 6/8/2015 11:09 PM, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
>> This is interesting, a handful of channels that are part of my subscription
>> but marked copy-once so I can't use them with MythTV:
>>
>> ]$ hdhomerun_config 131992E4 set /tuner2/vchannel 528
>> $ hdhomerun_config 131992E4 get /tuner2/vstatus
>> vch=528 name=E-DRw auth=subscribed cci=protected-copyonce cgms=n/a
> I believe E-DRw is "Encore Black" (the channel has a history
> that included a name of Encore Drama, where it probably got its
> id of E-DR; w is for west coast feed).  In at least some Comcast
> Franchises it is part of the Digital Preferred, Preferred+, and
> Premier levels (but not part of Digital Starter).
>
> Of course, Comcast sometimes calls these levels of service
> something entirely different in other franchises.
>
>
> All the premiums tend to have "free preview" weekends every
> so often, so it is possible that your franchise has/had
> one, or that after they had one, they have not cleaned up the
> entitlements in your region, or maybe there is a free preview
> coming up.
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>

Yeah, it's a group of Encore channels. The base Encore channel *was* 
marked cci=none but in checking for this post I see it's now copyonce. 
Meh, never watched it anyway.

Free previews are just too much of a PITA to use. It would mean adding 
the channel and loading the programming data for just a few days use. 
And if you forget to delete the channel you risk broken recordings.