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Hello again everyone. I've had a few threads asking about this topic,
but thought I'd give it another shot. All of the suggestions that I
have gotten in the past haven't worked, so I'm rethinking my current
setup. I have a pcHDTV5500 card and Myth-0.20.2 (the SD updated
version) on FC6, and have Comcast in Southern New Jersey. I used Myth
to scan for channels and came up with 328 channels. However, only 50
of them are known/usable. The rest of them simply show a blank screen
when I tune them within Myth, or show the "You should've gotten a lock
by now" message. All of the blank channels have channel IDs similar to
79#0, 17#1, etc.<br>
<br>
I started looking around at the forums on the pcHDTV site, and came
across this thread: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.pchdtv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1707">http://www.pchdtv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1707</a>.
In it, it is mentioned that Comcast sends everything encrypted except
for the really basic cable (local stations, home shopping stations,
etc.). Could this be what I'm running into? Am I basically screwed
here and "S.O.L."?<br>
<br>
Would investing in an HDHomeRun device help me get more of the channels
that Comcast transmits in my area? I do have firewire from my STB to
my Myth box, and I do know that it's working (I think I used portctl to
test it; something like that), but I haven't tried using it to record
programs. Would I need to get the firewire working so that the
encrypted channels come into the STB, then use the firewire connection
to record?<br>
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Thanks for any help. This is pretty much the last thing that I need to
get working to have the fully functional Myth setup that I envisioned
several months ago when I started all of this.<br>
<br>
Harry<br>
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