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CableLabs has clarified their CGMS (broadcast flag) rules for SiliconDust, who has in turn released a new firmware today-- those local channels with the RCD flag which were unrecordable with the Prime in MythTV will now function as expected (much rejoicing here, where that makes CBS, CW, and PBS of ...

I've pushed the remainder of my changes for the Prime to master in anticipation of .25. No demo tuner or DB hackery is needed in master any more. You can just set up the three tuners, set up a regular video source, attach the source to the prime, and fetch channels from listings source. It's a two m...

Some more info as I listen: The Digital version of CGMS is the Redistribution control descriptor in MPEG-TS. It's only relevant to local broadcast channels so myth users can avoid it by having a QAM tuner onhand if they have a problem broadcaster, they can work around it. CBS/CW uses it on all progr...

Hi guys, just a few notes to help the next person. --dd-grab-all is more or less what you referred to it as being, but it is not designed to clean out the channels, it merely discards the program data for all days, and reloads everything. It's actually a command line option that is easier on Schedul...