[mythtv-users] Firewire Success Stories?

[nik gibson]

Wow, you're lucky.  I get "maybe" 50% of the channels I subscribe to
with Time Warner in NYC.  It's killing me, I lose TNT and the comedy
channel to name a few...

I may try buying an indoor antenna and hooking it up to a pchdv5500 to
see if I can grab some OTA channels.

-Nik-

On 11/29/06, greg at nodecam.com <greg at nodecam.com> wrote:
> > This thread doesn't give me a warm-fuzzy re: firewire.  Is anyone else
> > having success?
>
> Yes.
>
> I'm on Shaw cable in Saskatoon with a Motorola 6200, and I get almost
> every channel that I subscribe to over firewire.  There are a couple of
> caveats though.
>
> 1) I added "firewire_tester -n0 -P0 -B" to my mythbackend init script
> three times - this "primes the pump" so to speak.
>
> 2) Sometimes when I reboot the machine, my 6200 gets picked up as node 1
> instead of node 0.  When this happens, I either have to unplug/replug the
> firewire cable, or reboot again and hope it comes up right (depending on
> if I'm physically near the machine or not)
>
> 3) When a channel that used to be free and clear becomes 5C=1, any
> scheduled recordings on that channel will fail (no surprise there) AND the
> firewire_tester program will need to be run again once the channel is
> changed away from the offending channel.  I recently had a couple of
> channels become 5C=1 on me, which caused some lost recordings.
>
> 4) If Myth changes to a channel that you don't have access to, you have to
> manually change the channel on the box - Myth can not change the channel
> away from the "You are not authorized to view this channel" splash.  This
> happened to me when my initial 3 month free preview expired, and I lost a
> couple of channels that I apparently tried to record stuff off of.
>
> 5) The capture is glitchy for me, with bunches of frames being dropped
> seemingly at random, with bad macroblocking.  I think this might be
> related to the firewire cable I'm using, but I haven't bothered tinkering
> with it yet - I don't record much HD because my main viewing platform is
> SD still.
>
> But yes, it's very stable for me, and works quite well - I just use it as
> a second tuner, and to watch semi-live sporting events.
>
> Greg
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