[mythtv-users] firewire/comcast/motorolla DHC3200

[John Baab]

I have 2 DHC3200 in the Harrisburg PA area.  I have them daisy-chained, and
they both work painlessly in mythbuntu 8.04.  Our firewire priming script is
a bit out of date, so a new version is in the works for 0.21, but its all
still very usable in its current state.  My only complaint is that Comcast
is CCI'ing MusicHD and MojoHD on me, all the rest of my HD channels are
currently openend.

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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
>
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