[mythtv] firewire tester
Jim Westfall
jwestfall at surrealistic.net
Sat Aug 19 08:55:06 UTC 2006
BP <lists at qucae.com> wrote [08.19.06]:
> Jim Westfall wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Attached is a firewire tester I wrote up this evening. I would like to
> > get a few firewire folks to give it a try. It still needs a bit of clean
> > up, but should be mostly functional.
> >
>
> It does properly detect my firewire is broken on a Motorola 6200. The
> fix mode does appear to work as well. If I run fix, Myth actually works
> with firewire again. However, I find I only get about 20 seconds of
> functioning before my firewire stops working again (channel changes
> never stop working). If I attempt to run fix when tuned to a 5c
> channel, fix will fail. I assume this is expected.
Can you supply output from running the -B option on the firewire tester as
well as the output from the backend with -v record,channel from when it
fails on a non-encrypted channel.
>
> It would be nice if you catch on to something to make firewire reliable
> again. I completely stopped using it over six months ago. Not sure if
> it was a Comcast change or a libiec61883/libraw1394 change that broke
> things.
It maybe your STB. I recently had one have its firewire bits go bad after
a recent heat wave. I took the box to my local comcast office and got it
replaced with no questions asked. The new box has been working great.
jim
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