[mythtv-users] firewire recording problems

Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com
Tue Jun 7 22:05:28 UTC 2005


Scott,
   Could I get a little clarification? We're recording without issue
here on multiple 1394 drives but we're not doing HD.

1) How is the 1394 drive mounted? (fstab, etc.)

2) I presume that the HD box is sending you video over 1394, correct?
I also assume that the drive is on the same cable/OHCI adapter?

3) I presume that the 61883 stuff is loaded to allow you to
communicate with the HD box, correct? It's certainly not needed to
talk to the drive.

4) Any warnings in dmesg from the 1394 stack that we should know about?

5) Last, and most important, can you copy files at the terminal level
between your internal hard drive and the 1394 drive?

Thanks,
Mark

On 6/7/05, Scott Zadigian <scott.zadigian at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just spent the weekend getting my first myth box up and running
> using the excellent "fedora myth how-to" guide and I'm having a little
> trouble with firewire recordings. I have the Motorola 6400 box and can
> sucessfully use 'test-mpeg2 -r 1' to capture HDTV onto my HD. However,
> when I setup my mythbackend and configure the firewire recording
> device as...
> 
> Firewire Model: DCT-6200
> Firewire Connection Type: Point to Point and Broadcast (I've tried both)
> Firewire Port: 0
> Firewire Node: 1
> Firewire Speed: 100Mbps
> Default Input: MPEG2TS
> 
> ... all of my recordings fail. Here is some of my relevant info. If
> anyone can see what i'm doing wrong i'd appreciate the help. I'm a
> complete linux/myth/firewire recording newb, so I would imagine it is
> prolly something quite simple.
> 
> 
> current '#plugreport' output -
> Host Adapter 0
> ==============
> 
> Node 0 GUID 0x00023c002103172e
> ------------------------------
> libiec61883 error: error reading oMPR
> libiec61883 error: error reading iMPR
> 
> Node 1 GUID 0x001225fffef368dc
> ------------------------------
> oMPR n_plugs=1, data_rate=2, bcast_channel=63
> oPCR[0] online=1, bcast_connection=0, n_p2p_connections=0
> channel=63, data_rate=0, overhead_id=0, payload=376
> iMPR n_plugs=0, data_rate=2
> 
> 
> some mythbackend log messages-
> 2005-06-05 21:32:53.485 Started recording "Law & Order: Criminal
> Intent" on channel: 1211 on
> cardid: 1, sourceid 1
> 2005-06-05 21:32:53.489 FireWireChannel: channel:211 cmds: 0x487c22,
> 0x487c21, 0x487c21
> 2005-06-05 21:32:55.068 Changing from None to RecordingOnly
> 2005-06-05 21:32:55.081 Firewire: Initializing Port: 0, Node: 1, Speed: 100Mbps
> 2005-06-05 21:32:55.082 Firewire: Creating P2P Connection with Node: 1
> libiec61883 warning: Established connection on channel 0.
> You may need to manually set the channel on the receiving node.
> 2005-06-05 21:32:55.086 Firewire: Created Channel: 0, Bandwidth Allocation: 2028
> 2005-06-05 21:32:55.087 Firewire: Changing Speed 200Mbps -> 100Mbps
> 2005-06-05 21:33:10.104 Firewire: No Input in 15 seconds [P:0 N:1] (select)
> 2005-06-05 21:33:50.784 Starting Commercial Flagging for "Law & Order:
> Criminal Intent" recorded
> from channel 1211 at Sun Jun 5 21:33:00 2005.
> 2005-06-05 21:33:51.153 New DB connection, total: 1
> 
> -Scott
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