[mythtv-users] Stabalizing Firewire?

[David Frascone]

Steven Adeff wrote:
> On 5/9/07, David Frascone <dave at frascone.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Wednesday, 09 May 2007, Steven Adeff wrote:
>>     
>>>> Something really screwy is going on -- I can't seem to schedule any
>>>> recordings on my firewire tuner.  I have logs at
>>>> http://frascone.com/log.txt.gz  (-v most).  Does anyone see anything
>>>> wrong in the logs?  (I'm trying to schedule recordings on mythweb.  All
>>>> other tuners seem to record fine.  But the firewire one (STB) is somehow
>>>> broked.
>>>>         
>>> do you have a lineup assigned to the firewire tuner?
>>>
>>>       
>> Of course.
>>
>> Last night, I completely re-did my tuners, w/o firewire.  I simply need that
>> tuner to be stable.  (I'm now using svideo out from the stb (but I am changing
>> channels via firewire)
>>
>> -Dave
>>     
>
> so assigning your firewire lineup to a PVR card and its scheduling
> fine but not when you have it assigned to the firewire connection?
>   
Scheduling was never an issue.  The problem is, sometimes video over 
firewire completely stops working.  And, once, everything went screwy, 
and the firewire disappeared, requiring a reboot.  But, that has only 
happened once.

My main issue is that firewire video will work for a while, but then it 
will stop, until I run firewire_tester again. and/or reboot the STB.  
Since my wife would kill me if she missed the Sopranos, this is a very 
big deal.

It's easier to just grab the channel over s-video and not have the problems.

-Dave

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David Frascone

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