[mythtv-users] Firewire: plugreport shows nothing

[Jim Westfall]

Matt Garman <matthew.garman at gmail.com> wrote [11.03.06]:
> On 10/30/06, Rob Baumstark <rbaumstark at gmail.com> wrote:
> > After a lot of screwing around, I've finally decided to rebuild to
> > gentoo / myth .20 - it's compiling stuff right now, and sometime in
> > the next few days I'll be moving it from my office back to the living
> > room.  I did confirm that the STB is working still - plugging a
> > windows box into it I can still capture with CapDVHS.
> 
> I never received any feedback on the linux1394 mailing list.  So I
> bought a new firewire card (side note: the original card was $40 at
> CompUSA; I'll be taking it back.  I ordered a new one from newegg for
> $12!).
> 
> Anyway, now I get the following when I run plugreport:
> 
> Host Adapter 0
> ==============
> 
> Node 0 GUID 0x00004c0100003fe7
> ------------------------------
> libiec61883 error: error reading oMPR
> libiec61883 error: error reading iMPR
> 
> Node 1 GUID 0x0016b5fffeabb4f0
> ------------------------------
> oMPR n_plugs=1, data_rate=2, bcast_channel=63
> oPCR[0] online=1, bcast_connection=0, n_p2p_connections=0
>         channel=1, data_rate=2, overhead_id=0, payload=376
> iMPR n_plugs=0, data_rate=2
> 
> I have only the cable STB plugged into the firewire card.  So I'm not
> sure if the STB is on node 0 or 1.
> 
> Either way, test-mpeg2 > file produces an empty (zero byte) file.
> 
> Any more ideas?
> 

node 1 is your stb.  You would need to run test-mpeg2 -r 1 > file

jim