[mythtv] add to Trac?

Jim Westfall jwestfall at surrealistic.net
Wed Jan 11 21:20:49 UTC 2006


Can you provide more info on what problem you are having, your mythtv 
firewire config settings, and plugctl output.

thanks
jim

Steve Adeff <adeffs at gmail.com> wrote [01.11.06]:
> I want to add the following as a ticket to Trac, but since theres no patch 
> attached, its more of a "bug" report with a possible solution for when a dev 
> has the time to put something together. Not sure if I should though, so I 
> figured I'd ask...
> Summary=Fix for Firewire connected Motorola DCT-64xx cable boxes
> Description=
> Information:
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/172082?search_string=firewire%20bus%20reset;#172082
> 
> I have not the skill to write such a patch, but I'm hoping this ticket will 
> remind a dev that does to create a patch for us DCT-64xx users to try to see 
> if the problem canbe solved.
> 
> Basically, the node the box is on needs to be reset (software version of 
> pulling the cable out and plugging it back in) before attempting to capture 
> an mpeg stream from the cablebox. It may also be of benefit to do it even 
> before the channel change command, as changing channels seems to have issue 
> as well sometimes. Two seperate patches for each problem would probably be 
> best, to track the benefit of both methods.
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