[mythtv-users] major regressions in 0.22

Jarod Wilson jarod at wilsonet.com
Wed Jan 13 19:48:21 UTC 2010


On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 01/13/2010 02:16 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:
>>
>> I moved my storage disks and my firewire card to a new machine,
>> put in a new system disk, and loaded up MythBuntu 9.10.
>>
>> Everything came across successfully (HDHR works, ScheduleDirect
>> works, recordings are in place) except...
>>
>> FireWire recordings from my 6200-series STB went from failing
>> once every 20-30 recordings to failing 99% of the time.
>>
>> I tried Steven Adeff's priming script, to no avail.
>>
>> Even when I get a good connection and recording, I'm pretty much
>> guaranteed not to get one the next time around.
>>
>> Where should I begin looking? I've read the wiki entries on
>> firewire priming, and tried them. It usually fails. This was all
>> working on 0.21.
>
> s/major regressions in 0.22/major regressions when my distro changed
> firewire stacks or something/
>
> (get that blame away from our feet :)

More to the point, are you sure this is really a mythtv regression,
and not a firewire driver or library regression (or something else),
since you updated your entire distro?

I'm not even sure which firewire stack *buntu runs anymore.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com


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