[mythtv] Firewire capture failing

Jim Westfall jwestfall at surrealistic.net
Thu Mar 9 02:25:51 UTC 2006


Just tired 18800 on mine and it does the same.  I will take a look, thanks.

The setting is under TV Setting then General on the 3rd page.

jim

Brad Martin <bmartin at fatlxception.no-ip.org> wrote [03.08.06]:
> With recent SVN versions my firewire capture has stopped working.  The 
> channel would change properly, but no video would ever be captured.  I 
> did a binary search and tracked down the break to SVN 9168->9169.  That 
> revision apparently added the ability to set the IEC61883 buffer size 
> via the DB setting HDRingbufferSize.  On my setup that setting had a 
> value of 18800, and I'm not sure where that value came from.  I have no 
> idea where that setting can be found from the UI.  After some 
> experimentation, I found that no video is received if I set 
> HDRingbufferSize greater than about 16000, but 16000 and below works 
> fine.  Is this supposed to be the case?  If so, then a value that is 
> known to break should not have been allowed, whether it was a default 
> value or the result of a UI setting.  If not, why am I experiencing this 
> limit?  I'm running Gentoo with libiec61883 version 1.0.0-r1, libraw1394 
> version 1.2.0, and kernel 2.6.15-gentoo-r1, all Gentoo packages.  I also 
> tried using libiec61883 from their SVN tree revision 67.
> 
>     --Brad
> 
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