<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Robert McNamara <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robert.mcnamara@gmail.com">robert.mcnamara@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:05 AM, lists.md301 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists.md301@gmail.com" target="_blank">lists.md301@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica"><br></font></blockquote><div>Since Silicon Dust uses MythTV internally, will this capability make it onto the public release roadmap? Personally I care, as I'm one of the lucky ones where my Comcast system has all of my digital tier flagged Copy Freely (I don't subscribe to any Premiums, which I presume are locked down), which I can get through STB firewire. I'll mention here that I've heard they are flagged Free for compatibility with Tivo's capability, since they have some kind of working relationship with Comcast, but haven't found anything definitely authoritative to confirm this. The implementation can vary greatly by your particular head end-YMMV.<br>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div>Trunk's libmythhdhomerun already includes the code required to interface with the HDHomeRun Prime. We've discussed some setup improvements that would help users configure the unit better and they are preparing a patch to make a few small tweaks to benefit Prime owners. We will probably need one more lib resync with them but they are aware of our release timeline and expect to provide a patch in time for .24.</div>
<div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>Robert</div></font></div><br></blockquote></div><br>Thanks Robert (and Raymond)! I did a brief scan of patch/diff from the 0.24 ticket for the HDHR lib update, and I see that a virtual channel tune function has been added. The 0.24 features list on the wiki just lists the lib sync--there is no mention yet that Prime capability will be included as a result. I've wondered how Prime would interface with the virtual channel map (assigning the familiar 3 or 4 digit channel number to a QAM transport/program slot), fearing that it might be behind a DRM wall. Will myth be issuing virtual channel tune requests, similar to how a STB is tuned? If that's true, then from an end user perspective, as long as my channel numbers are up-to-date from SchedulesDirect, using a Prime should be seemless, just like a STB, but without any anxiety over a flaky firewire connection. (Although personally, mine has been pretty solid connected to a Motorola 6200. I did have one issue upgrading my (Gentoo) kernel recently to 2.6.31 (from 2.6.19), with a memory allocation failure on some channel changes, but after a little research I believe that was a kernel firewire stack bug (old stack, not juju) memory leak. Upgrading again to 2.6.32 seems to have resolved it, but time will tell.) <br>