[mythtv-users] firewire/comcast/motorolla DHC3200

[Harry Devine]

Jason wrote:
> Hi Harry,
>
>   
>> Hey, I hope you don't mind my jumping in here, but I have a DCT-3412 with 
>> Comcast in Southern NJ (near Atlantic City).  I have 2 Firewire ports on 
>> it, and when I had 0.20.2 running (I've since upgraded to 0.21 and haven't 
>> put the Firewire back into the mix yet), but I've noticed that whatever 
>> tuner you're on on the STB gets put out to BOTH firewire outputs.  I could 
>> get the channel changer to work fine (the 6200ch) but it seemed pointless 
>> to have to watch whatever was recorded.  I feel I'm recording it for a 
>> reason, ya know?
>>
>> Does your STB have this limitation?  How did you get around it if so?
>>     
>
> I'm not sure if I have that limitation.  I have it setup next to the server, 
> so I don't watch what's on it directly very often.  When I do turn on that 
> TV, it does seem to only spit out via FireWire whatever it is playing at the 
> time, though.  So, if I turn on the TV while it's recording, it'll show me 
> what's being recorded.  I'd imagine that there's only a single tuner in the 
> thing and it just spits out whatever is tuned via all the outputs.  Does the 
> 3412 have more than one tuner?
>
> I only have one FW cable connected, so I don't know what's coming out the 
> other one on the unit.  I had assume that was for chaining multiple devices 
> together rather than getting a different channel output.
>
> Jason 
>
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That STB has 2 tuners in it and it's a DVR box.  So I can record 2 
things at the same time, 1 on each tuner.  I just haven't looked into 
what it would take to record off of firewire, and be able to switch 
tuners.  I just don't know if that would mess up the recording in 
progress or not.  I should give that a shot one of these days.

Thanks for the info.
Harry