[mythtv] firewire tester

Jim Westfall jwestfall at surrealistic.net
Thu Sep 14 00:21:20 UTC 2006


Andrew Casper <andrew at andrewcasper.com> wrote [09.13.06]:
> 
> I've been wanting to try firewire_tester, but I was waiting for the . 
> 20 release. I've got .20 installed and I see firewire_tester.c came  
> with the install. I'm not a developer, so I need a little guidance  
> here. Do I need to compile and if so how? And should this be run with  
> the backend stopped?
> 

info on compiling it at the top of the c file.

$ gcc -Wall -o firewire_tester firewire_tester.c -liec61883 -lraw1394

it should be ok to run while backend is running, so long as its not 
recording with the node you are testing.

jim


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