[mythtv] firewire branch status?

Daniel Kristjansson danielk at cuymedia.net
Thu Apr 12 16:03:21 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 11:26 -0400, Steven Adeff wrote:
> Hi guys, been running this a while and its been great. One thing I
> noticed, the box got reset  and it changed ports. Myth found it fine
> with the GUID system but recordings didn't work. I had to run the
> firewire_tester -B command a couple times on the box at the new port
> to get it working again. Is the method firewire_tester uses included
> in part of how Myth internally handles firewire recordings?

Change the "#if 0" in linuxfirewiredevice.cpp's ResetBus()
to "#if 1" and it will do this for you automatically.

This will glitch any other firewire recordings which are
ongoing, but if you are only using one firewire recorder
this is not an issue.

-- Daniel



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