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<blockquote data-quote="CyberSimian" data-source="post: 1276261" data-attributes="member: 141969"><p>From what I have read on other web sites (I have no personal experience of USA television), it is "premium" content that is copy protected. These are channels that you pay extra for, and would typically be recent movies, prestige sports events, and so on. However, apparently some cable providers encrypt <em>all</em> of the content apart from local free-to-air channels. If content is encrypted, MP will know that a channel is present, but will not be able to display a picture or sound for that channel.</p><p></p><p></p><p>It is the only system that allows you to watch and record <em>copy-protected</em> content on cable TV. This is because any software that wants to decode the protected content needs to be certified by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CableLabs" target="_blank">CableLabs</a> to ensure that the software conforms to the digital rights management requirements. This certification costs big money (hundreds of thousands of dollars, I believe). MediaPortal has no money.</p><p></p><p></p><p>In the UK, our terrestrial free-to-air TV broadcasts include as part of the TV datastream a 7-day EPG which MP can decode and display. As I understand it, the cable TV datastream in the USA <strong>does not</strong> have a built-in EPG, so you will still need to setup a system for obtaining the EPG from the internet. This is the same as you would have to do for WMC.</p><p></p><p>I believe that there are USA users of MP who successfully use Schedules Direct to obtain the EPG for MP (<a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/getting-started.139956/post-1274186" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/schedulesdirect-and-mp-1-22.139247/post-1264329" target="_blank">here</a>), but others have tried and failed (<a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/schedulesdirect-and-mp-1-22.139247/post-1274529" target="_blank">here</a>).</p><p></p><p>There is a large pool of expertise regarding Schedules Direct and EPG123 on the <a href="https://www.thegreenbutton.tv/forums/viewforum.php?f=99" target="_blank">Green Button</a> web site, because it is mostly USA users of WMC who frequent that site. In contrast, there is very little expertise on the MP web site with regard to using Schedules Direct to obtain the EPG, because few people in Europe use Schedules Direct with MP. You will get an indication of this by the lack of responses from anyone else.</p><p></p><p>My view is that we all waste far too much of our lives trying to get software to work. In your case the simplest answer would be to buy or rent the DVR available from your cable provider, and forget about trying to use a PC to watch and record TV (you will still be able to use your PC to watch content that you have already recorded). Alternatively, the Hauppauge web site suggests using the <a href="https://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_dcr2650.html" target="_blank">Hauppauge WinTV application</a>.</p><p></p><p>I am sorry that this all seems so negative.</p><p></p><p>-- from CyberSimian in the UK</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CyberSimian, post: 1276261, member: 141969"] From what I have read on other web sites (I have no personal experience of USA television), it is "premium" content that is copy protected. These are channels that you pay extra for, and would typically be recent movies, prestige sports events, and so on. However, apparently some cable providers encrypt [I]all[/I] of the content apart from local free-to-air channels. If content is encrypted, MP will know that a channel is present, but will not be able to display a picture or sound for that channel. It is the only system that allows you to watch and record [I]copy-protected[/I] content on cable TV. This is because any software that wants to decode the protected content needs to be certified by [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CableLabs']CableLabs[/URL] to ensure that the software conforms to the digital rights management requirements. This certification costs big money (hundreds of thousands of dollars, I believe). MediaPortal has no money. In the UK, our terrestrial free-to-air TV broadcasts include as part of the TV datastream a 7-day EPG which MP can decode and display. As I understand it, the cable TV datastream in the USA [B]does not[/B] have a built-in EPG, so you will still need to setup a system for obtaining the EPG from the internet. This is the same as you would have to do for WMC. I believe that there are USA users of MP who successfully use Schedules Direct to obtain the EPG for MP ([URL='https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/getting-started.139956/post-1274186']here[/URL] and [URL='https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/schedulesdirect-and-mp-1-22.139247/post-1264329']here[/URL]), but others have tried and failed ([URL='https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/schedulesdirect-and-mp-1-22.139247/post-1274529']here[/URL]). There is a large pool of expertise regarding Schedules Direct and EPG123 on the [URL='https://www.thegreenbutton.tv/forums/viewforum.php?f=99']Green Button[/URL] web site, because it is mostly USA users of WMC who frequent that site. In contrast, there is very little expertise on the MP web site with regard to using Schedules Direct to obtain the EPG, because few people in Europe use Schedules Direct with MP. You will get an indication of this by the lack of responses from anyone else. My view is that we all waste far too much of our lives trying to get software to work. In your case the simplest answer would be to buy or rent the DVR available from your cable provider, and forget about trying to use a PC to watch and record TV (you will still be able to use your PC to watch content that you have already recorded). Alternatively, the Hauppauge web site suggests using the [URL='https://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_dcr2650.html']Hauppauge WinTV application[/URL]. I am sorry that this all seems so negative. -- from CyberSimian in the UK [/QUOTE]
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