[mythtv-users] Comcast goes Mpeg4 in Atlanta

[Kirk Bocek]

On December 13, 2015 4:05:44 PM PST, Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 9:44 PM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:
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>> On 12/12/2015 8:53 PM, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
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>The 998 (and 999 and 1999) have "always" been there
>(not new for this transition).  I do not recall a problem
>recording 998 (the color bars) but AFAIK 999 is for
>internal use only, and I have heard reports that the
>1999/eas channel is sometimes special (I recall seeing
>a Fedora login screen at one point).  You may need
>to use the channel editor to add those channels to
>your system in order to record from them (I am pretty
>sure Schedules Direct does not have them in their
>database, so if you used fetch data to create your
>channel table, they likely are not in there).  You
>almost certainly will need to manually add 1995 (or
>whatever) if/when it created in your CableCARD channel
>maps.
>

I used a script I have used many times for other new channels to manually add 998 and 1999. Neither would work with Myth. I guess I'll just keep an eye out for 1995.