[mythtv-users] HD Homerun Prime with MythTV

Brad Fuller bradallenfuller at gmail.com
Wed Jul 21 04:04:36 UTC 2010


On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 19:44, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
>> On 7/20/2010 18:01, Shawn Asmussen wrote:
>>>
>>> Personally, I feel lucky that I even got the firewire channel changing
>>> working on my box, and I have no desire at all to try to put up enough of a
>>> fight to try to get a box with working firewire capture.
>>
>> If you have firewire changing working, and cannot get capture working, then
>> it is very likely you simply have no 'copy-freely' content.
>
> I've been struggling with it for two years.
>
> It's not the case that the channels are marked as no-copy.  I can get
> to the diagnostic screen for the STB and it shows that 5C is disabled
> for the channels I'm trying to record, it's just very hit or miss as
> far as what I actually get.  Some channels seem to record perfectly
> all the time.  Others record perfectly sometimes, and other times
> record only partially.  I might get 17 minutes on a 30 minute
> recording, or 3 minutes, or 12 minutes or who knows what.  I've come
> not to depend on anything recording over firewire and would switch to
> a HDHR prime in a heartbeat.  I don't know what they cost, but they
> have to be *way* cheaper than 3x HD STB rental plus 3x HDPVR.

That was my experience too. I could get the channel changed everytime
with 1394, but the recording was hit a miss. So, I dropped that and
took the STB back. It was just too flakey for me to use.


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