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

[Brad DerManouelian]

Are you having networking issues?

On Dec 17, 2005, at 9:19 PM, Alex Brekken wrote:

> Thanks guys, yes I changed the speed setting in mythtvsetup to 400  
> mbps.  Now, plugreport shows that the data_rate=2 and stays there.   
> However, it didn't seem to fix my display issues.
>  It's not a stuttering necessairly, more of a slow-down - like it's  
> in slow motion for a second or 2.  -it does this every 3 or 4  
> seconds.  "normal speed, slo-mo, normal speed, slo-mo," etc, etc.   
> The video itself doesn't break-up at all during this problem.    It  
> doesn't do it all the time, but it can happen on any channel.  I  
> see it both during liveTV viewing as well as on pre-recorded shows.
> The firewire capture is happening on a slave backend box, which is  
> an older Dell pentium 3 1gHz machine.  I suppose it's possible that  
> the machine itself is to blame (issue with PCI bus?) but I don't  
> think the hard drive is the problem.  It's a newer 7200 RPM Western  
> Digital drive with 8 mb cache.
>
> Any guesses?  I'd love to be able to utilize Firewire capture,  
> since it's much more reliable now thanks to those pluctl commands -  
> but if I can't fix this video slow-mo issue than I think I'll have  
> to ditch it.
>
>
> On 12/17/05, Steve Adeff <adeffs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> What speed setting do you have set for the firewire capture device?  
> try
> increasing it as Myth will change these plug values when you use  
> firewire as
> a capture device.
>
> Steve
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