[mythtv-users] Firewire and DCT-6200

[Jarod Wilson]

On Oct 11, 2005, at 20:23, Curtis Stanford wrote:

> Is anyone seriously using firewire input with a dct-6200 receiver  
> reliably?

/me raises hand.

> I just got mine working a few days ago and when it's working, it's  
> great. However, more often than not, recordings come up short or  
> the channel doesn't change. It hasn't made it through an hour long  
> recording yet without the backend saying:
>
> Firewire: No Input in 15 seconds [P:0 N:1] (select)
>
> Then the recording stops. If anyone has any experience with this,  
> I'd appreciate a pointer to the component that may be giving me  
> problems. Is it the receiver, mythtv, linux, or my cheap firewire  
> card?

My money would be on the firewire card. Your symptoms sound similar  
to those I saw with the onboard firewire on one of my systems. A  
different FireWire card (WD one bundled with a drive that I got ages  
ago) and the FW port on my Audigy sound cards all work great though  
(currently using the Audigy's port in production).

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com


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