The remote is very common in the US. It was supplied by many of the cable TV providers (Verizon, Time Warner, etc).
I believe Motorola makes the QIP STBs. I have seen some forum posts mentioning they often use G.I. (apparently Motorola bought GI).
The remote is designed to control the STB (most buttons) and then allow user to enter their TV code to program a few buttons (volume, etc) to their specific TV.
Example of remote:
https://www.amazon.com/Verizon-FiOS-Replacement-Remote-Control/dp/B00ARLKW8M/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
https://www.verizon.com/home/accessories/media/images-accessories/productPDF/P265_brochure.pdf
Definitely not seeing ditto codes in the debug log. Not getting multiple presses when using flirc on rpi running lirc/kodi/etc either.
Could flirc fw may be filtering the GI ditto codes? Any way to debug further?