[mythtv-users] Glitches in firewire capture from DCT-6200

[Curtis Stanford]

My DCT-6200 works pretty well with firewire and I do all that is  
mentioned below. However, I do get some of the glitches you talk  
about. Mine occur mainly at the very beginning of the recording. It  
seems to just skip 5 seconds or so and pick up afterwards.

I also have a weird problem where the node will just switch on me all  
of a sudden. It will be going along happily on node 0 and then  
recordings will just stop (sometimes right in the middle of a show).  
I check plugreport and the node has changed to 1 for no apparent  
reason. So, I switch it to 1 in the myth database and go along for a  
while and it will change back to 0. I've never seen a node of 2 however.

On Dec 9, 2005, at 1:04 PM, Steve Adeff wrote:

> there was a thread a while back regarding this. You can search on  
> Gossamer for
> more info. basically you want to run this bash script. It will set  
> the p2p or
> broadcast connection to 1 depending on what your machine will use.  
> From what
> I've found bcast is prefered when available, which is why it comes  
> second
> (since its one or the other) p2p is sometimes only available and  
> when this is
> the case its fine. data_rate doesn't need to be 3, but it increases  
> speed if
> your using firewire for capture and not just channel changing. I  
> have it run
> before mythbackend starts when I run it via init.d and I've found  
> it resets
> sometimes so I run it hourly as a cron job.
>
> oh, and the -n # is which node it is. In case you have more than  
> one firewire
> connection have it run for each connection as well.
>
> #!/bin/bash
> plugctl -n 2 opcr[0].channel=63
> plugctl -n 2 opcr[0].n_p2p_connections=1
> plugctl -n 2 opcr[0].bcast_connection=1
> plugctl -n 2 opcr[0].data_rate=3
>
> -- 
> Steve
>
> On Friday 09 December 2005 14:52, Azmat wrote:
>> Here's my plugreport output:
>> Host Adapter 0
>> ==============
>>
>> Node 0 GUID 0x0000d10080357942
>> ------------------------------
>> libiec61883 error: error reading oMPR
>> libiec61883 error: error reading iMPR
>>
>> Node 1 GUID 0x4279358080357942
>> ------------------------------
>> libiec61883 error: error reading oMPR
>> libiec61883 error: error reading iMPR
>>
>> Node 2 GUID 0x000f9ffffe103008
>> ------------------------------
>> oMPR n_plugs=1, data_rate=2, bcast_channel=63
>> oPCR[0] online=1, bcast_connection=0, n_p2p_connections=0
>>         channel=63, data_rate=0, overhead_id=0, payload=376
>> iMPR n_plugs=0, data_rate=2
>>
>> On 12/9/05, Steve Adeff <adeffs at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Friday 09 December 2005 12:44, Azmat wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> My mythtv system is running on an AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (2 GHz)  
>>>> with 1G
>>>> RAM, a PVR-350 and firewire capture from my Motorola DCT-6200 cable
>>>> box.  Whenever I do firewire capture from the box through Myth, the
>>>> recording exhibits a audio/video glitching.  The picture will
>>>> momentarily become pixelated and there will be a brief skip.  I can
>>>> tell the glitch is in the recording because when I rewind and  
>>>> playback
>>>> it is reproducible.  There is no pattern or regularity to the
>>>> glitching.  Sometimes it will be at the start of the show and will
>>>> disappear in the middle, only to reappear later.  It doesn't  
>>>> prevent
>>>> me from recording shows, but is just become a huge annoyance  
>>>> that I'd
>>>> like to take care of.  Does anyone have any idea what might be  
>>>> wrong?
>>>> Do you think a faster processor would help?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>>
>>>> Azmat
>>>
>>> run plugreport and paste the output.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Steve
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> Azmat
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