[mythtv] [patch] firewire broadcast connection

[Todd Tidwell]

My experience has been this, and it covers nearly everything you guys talk
about:

1) before the firewire patch Jim made, I only got firewire capture every 3rd
to 5th time

2) After the patch, it works great, except after reboots of the Myth
machine.  To solve that I have to use the test-mpeg tool to "prime the pump"
so to speak.  Once it gives capture streams a couple of times, the broadcast
code seems to always work.

3) Sometimes after reboots or other oddities it gets on the 0 node.  If
that's the case abandon ship, reboot, unplug, replug, repeat until it gets
back the hell where it belongs.

These boxes are a little flakey but they seem to be great once you get them
into the prime state and then never touch them or your myth machine again.

-Todd

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org]
On Behalf Of andrew burke
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 3:11 PM
To: Development of mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv] [patch] firewire broadcast connection

It's one of the motorola 6200 series boxes from RCN.

> what set top box do you have?
>
> jim
>
> Jeremy Muhlich <jmuhlich at bitflood.org> wrote [03.11.05]:
>> I'm not sure it's mythtv's fault, as the test_mpeg tool from the
>> linux1394/iec61883 package exhibits the same problems.  (I think it's
>> test_mpeg; I don't have access to my myth box right now and the
>> linux1394 svn repo is currently unresponsive)
>>
>> Does anyone here have suggestions as to where in raw1394/iec61883 I
>> might start poking around to find answers?
>>
>>
>>  -- Jeremy
>>
>>
>> Tom Harding wrote:
>>
>> I "third" this request!
>>
>> I have the same problem and reason to believe its because of problems
>> with peer mode.
>>
>>
>> andrew burke wrote:
>>
>> >I'd like to second this request.
>> >
>> >Aditionally, has anyone had problems with firewire recording not
>> reliably
>> starting?  For instance, trying to watch live tv over firewire often
>> takes three or four tries before it works.  Is this a common bug or
>> should I do some more hunting trying to figure out exactly what's going
>> wrong?
>> >
>> >andy
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
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