[mythtv-users] Can't watch live TV over firewire

Tim Fenn fenn at stanford.edu
Thu Nov 1 01:00:22 UTC 2007


On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:03:24 -0400 "Matt Emmott" <memmott at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 10/31/07, Chris Petersen <lists at forevermore.net> wrote:
> >
> > Santa Claws wrote:
> > > Right now I'm trying to figure out why it won't let me
> > > watch Live TV or
> > > succesfully change channels. Any ideas?
> >
> > What distro, and are you using an OHCI 1.0 or 1.1 firewire
> > controller? There are known issues with firewire and linux that
> > sound very similar to your current behavior.
> >
> 
> 
> The Mythbox has sat dormant for a month or so. I suppose I should
> fire it up and try to figure out this issue.

I think the OHCI 1.0 versus 1.1 issue is only a problem with the new
firewire stack (see
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=Juju_OHCI_1.0), which isn't
supported at all by myth yet.

I too am having similar problems, and filed a ticket as it causes my
backend to crash after recording an empty file:

http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/4091

My guess (and I'm no expert, so I'm probably way off) is that the STB is
messing with the PAT/PMT that makes mythtv an angry mythtv.

-Tim

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