[mythtv-users] Can't get it to work
Raymond Wagner
raymond at wagnerrp.com
Thu Aug 5 04:09:29 UTC 2010
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Mark Tiddens
<tiddens at jumpingdolphins.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to find a Linux alternative to the WinTV7 software that gets all
> channels, including clear QAM channels numbering in the thousands. WinTV7
> was simple to set up, and gets these channels.
I'm sure there are tons of people around here interested in knowing what
cable company you have. I've not heard of a cable company that even
offers a lineup with a thousand channels, much less one that provides
them unencrypted. Are you sure those channels actually exist, and there
aren't huge gaps due to the way the cable company has them numbered?
Are you sure those channels are actually unencrypted, and you can record
from them, rather than just included in an all encompassing lineup
Microsoft provided?
You are correct that if Windows can access those clear QAM channels,
Linux and MythTV should be able to as well. However, most cable
companies only provide unencrypted what is required of them by the FCC,
which means only your local 'must carry' broadcast channels. Anything
more than that and you either need a Cablecard tuner, or you need analog
capture off a cable box. Cablecard tuners are very likely to never work
with MythTV. The most you might be able to do is recording shows marked
'copy freely' off Silicon Dust's new Cablecard box, but those are going
to be the same shows you can record off the cable box over firewire anyway.
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Mark Tiddens
<tiddens at jumpingdolphins.com> wrote:
> I work for CatchTheWaveTV.com, makers of The Wave, a PC designed to connect
> to TV's, and we want everything to be pre-installed, so if Mythtv must use
> this SchedulesDirect, we cannot implement it in The Wave.
Tribune Media Services formerly provided a free subscription for
individual non-commercial users to get high quality guide data. This
was abused by companies wanting free guide data for their commercial
DVRs, so TMS terminated the service. SchedulesDirect was started up to
collectively license the guide data from TMS in order to provide it to
the non-commercial community at a nominal fee.
If you wish to provide guide data with your commercial product, you will
have to license it for use just like everyone else. Windows 7 does not
provide free guide data. Microsoft has purchased a license to
redistribute someone's guide data, and that cost is included in the
price of your Windows license.
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