[mythtv-users] UPDATE: FireWire Issues on SA 4240HDC

Joann Bessler bessler at dccnet.com
Thu Aug 21 15:37:48 UTC 2008


> On Aug 19, 2008, at 5:22 PM, Josh Wisenbaker wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've been playing with KnoppMyth R5 on a Core2Duo Mac Mini and the
>> FireWire tuner is giving me fits. So far I can change channels, but I
>> can never get a channel lock. firewire_tester never reports any
>> success with the Generic or SA profiles selected in mythtv-setup.
>> mythtv-setup does correctly identify the GUID and model of my SA
>> 4240HDC STB.
>>
>> I know it isn't an EMI issue on the channels I'm testing. They are
>> marked as copy freely and I can in fact record and play them back
>> using the AVCapture and VirtualDVHS apps from the FireWire SDK when
>> booted into Mac OS X.
>>
>> Any tips on how to proceed? I've already burned through the FireWire
>> troubleshooting steps I've found in the various wikis.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Josh
>
> I've got a bit of an update, but not much good news.
>
> After failing to get KnoppMyth working over FireWire I tried a few  
> more distros.
>
> I liked MythDora, but I still have the exact same issue (Once I had  
> patched to get the FW working.). I get 100% signal, but only a  
> partial lock.
> I then tried the Mac OS X builds of MythTV backend and frontend, and  
> I have the same issues. That was the most frustrating of all as I I  
> could quit MythTV, fire up AVCBrowser and stream the video directly  
> to VLC and I can capture with ACCVideoCap to a stream file.
>
> I'm rebuilding the KnoppMyth box and will post some logs.
>
> Thanks,
> Josh
>
> -- 
> Josh Wisenbaker, ACSA
> http://www.afp548.com
> We're the M in RTFM.

Recording via firewire using the OS X version of mythbackend works for  
me from my Motorola 6412. Not a solution to your problem, I'm afraid,  
but a datapoint which seems to indicate the problem may be specific to  
an interaction between myth and your SA box.



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