[mythtv-users] Can no longer capture firewire

Gabe Rubin gaberubin at gmail.com
Wed Dec 26 16:05:21 UTC 2012


On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Mike Perkins
<mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk>wrote:

> On 25/12/12 22:47, Gabe Rubin wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Gabe Rubin <gaberubin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi list,
>>>
>>> i did an upgrade of my system.  Running F16 and migrated from atrpms to
>>> rpmfusion.  Everything for the most part is working, but I can no longer
>>> firewire capture.
>>>
>>> I know my firewire connection is still fine, because I can playback from
>>> a  test-mpeg2 -r 1 > test.mpg
>>>
>>>
>>> However, myth does not capture from firewire anymore.  It does not change
>>> the channel either.  I am using /usr.bin/6200.ch to change the channel.
>>> It appears I need to add a "-n 1" flag from the shell to make the change.
>>> I am unsure how to make myth know to use this flag (I have chosen
>>> /usr/bin/
>>> 6200.ch -n 1 as the channel changer script for my firewire capture in
>>> the
>>> captureinput table of the database).
>>>
>>> I am not even sure where to begin looking and would appreciate any help.
>>>
>>>
>> I solved this issue.  Had to recompile the channel changer script and now
>> I
>> can capture.
>>
>>  You recompiled a /script?/ what difference does that make?
>
>
Typo, I recompiled the channel changer program (a c program).  I had
modified it to start at node 0 and the source starts at node 1.  It seems
that going back to how it was originally coded fixed the problem for me.
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