[mythtv] Firewire: How to test input?

Jim Westfall jwestfall at surrealistic.net
Wed Feb 9 06:19:34 UTC 2005


are you able to capture on channel 0 on your windows box?

jim

Nate Carlson <natecars at natecarlson.com> wrote [02.08.05]:
> On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Jim Westfall wrote: k
> >I am not a firewire expert, but I have always been under the impression 
> >that node 0 is always your firewire card.
> >
> >I would plug in your 3250HD box then run gscanbus to figure out what 
> >node its on.
> 
> Here's the gscanbus output:
> 
> 'ohci1394' button:
> SelfID Info
> -----------
> Physical ID: 1
> Link active: Yes
> Gap Count: 5
> PHY Speed: S400
> PHY Delay: <=144ns
> IRM Capable: Yes
> Power Class: None
> Port 0: Connected to child node
> Init. reset: No
> 
> CSR ROM Info
> ------------
> GUID: 0x364FC0000EA09841
> Node Capabilities: 0x000083C0
> Vendor ID: 0x00364FC0
> Unit Spec ID: 0x0000005E
> Unit SW Version: 0x00000001
> Model ID: 0x00000000
> Nr. Textual Leafes: 1
> 
> Vendor: Unknown
> Textual Leafes:
> Linux - ohci1394
> 
> AV/C Subunits
> -------------
> N/A
> 
> 'Scientific-Atlanta, Inc' button:
> SelfID Info
> -----------
> Physical ID: 0
> Link active: Yes
> Gap Count: 5
> PHY Speed: S400
> PHY Delay: <=144ns
> IRM Capable: Yes
> Power Class: -1W
> Port 0: Not connected
> Port 1: Connected to parent node
> Init. reset: Yes
> 
> CSR ROM Info
> ------------
> GUID: 0x000F21BE498A0000
> Node Capabilities: 0x000083C0
> Vendor ID: 0x00000F21
> Unit Spec ID: 0x00000989
> Unit SW Version: 0x00000100
> Model ID: 0x00000000
> Nr. Textual Leafes: 2
> 
> Vendor: Unknown
> Textual Leafes:
> Scientific-Atlanta, Inc.
> Explorer(R) 3250HD
> 
> AV/C Subunits
> -------------
> N/A
> 
> 
> I can capture channel 1 under Windows using the VCR hack (haven't found 
> any other channels I can get yet), but I don't get any output from 
> test-mpeg2. Could you do me a favor and send the command line you use for 
> test-mpeg2 and the output it's supposed to give?
> 
> >also test-mpeg2 dumps the mpeg2 to stdout, so make sure to redirect to a 
> >file when you run it.
> 
> I'd love to have my screen flooded with raw mpeg right now.. :)
> 
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