[mythtv-users] Time Warner & Firewire

Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com
Mon May 16 20:49:10 UTC 2005


On 5/16/05, Nathan Poznick <kraken at wang-fu.org> wrote:
> Thus spake Mario Limonciello:
> > Ouch Nathan - really sorry to hear about the unfortunate news of no SD
> > then with the local co.  Have you tried to talking to the reps at the
> > office about getting a software flash to allow SD channels through the
> > firewire?
> 
> As I said, SD works fine - it's the HD that's blocked out (it worked for
> the first few months I had it, but a firmware update about a month and a
> half ago made that stop working).
> 

Hi,
   I've been following this thread sort of remotely. I'm an old 1394
guy who worked on a number of the original IEEE specs for that
technology so I have an interest. Besides I'm curious about what
results I might get here in the Bay Area.

   Do you know anything specific about what is and what is not
actually on the 1394 bus? Is anything being transmitted? Has anyone
had an opportunity to stick a bus sniffer on the cable? Or is it
possible that the set top box is doing 5C content protection and the
Linux 1394 stack isn't responding appropriately?

Thanks and good luck,
Mark


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