[mythtv-users] Single Channel Failure with InfiniTV 6 ETH

[Gary Buhrmaster]

On Feb 13, 2017 12:35, "Greg Thompson" <gthompson20 at gmail.com> wrote:

> That is the issue, its DRM.


DRM (Digital Rights Management) is itself not the issue, the specific
marking is.  For pretty much all Comcast locations ALL content has DRM
markings, of which the two most common rights/markings are copy-once,
and copy-freely.  The issue for this sample channel is that the
marking is more restrictive than can be implemented by MythTV, unlike
the marking for (say) the local OTA ABC channel which is typically
copy-freely.

As far as Movieplex is concerned, while I do not subscribe to it, I
first saw others mention it was now set to copy-once some time ago,
but never really paid attention.  Be aware that in some markets
Comcast (at one point) did not mark SD (standard definition) variants
of some premium channels (only HD (High Definition) variants as
copy-once for at least some time (I know they mis-marked the SD
variant of HBO for some time), and there are occasionally other
strange edge cases.  Comcast has some corporate standards, but every
acquired location (and Comcast is nothing if not an serial acquiree)
seems to continue some uniqueness.  A possible additional complication
is that various corporate ownerships of starz/encore/movieplex changed
in the last year or so, and it is possible that the carriage contracts
have been renegotiated requiring a change in markings.

While it is unlikely marking Movieplex with copy-once is a mistake,
the only way to know for sure it to ask, although given this is a
"premium" channel, I suspect that all you might accomplish is a review
of other franchises that have not yet marked the channel copy-once
(especially if you mention "well in Mr. Bennett's location, it is
copy-freely).