[mythtv-users] Enabling firewire

Yan Seiner yan at seiner.com
Sun Feb 12 16:09:14 UTC 2006


Nick Zambo wrote:

>Hey all,
>
>I'm trying to justify building a whole mythtv rig to my wife so I'm
>trying to get a preliminary setup running on my little laptop.  I've
>got everything as it needs to be but I'm trying to get the setup
>working with my Motorola DVR set-top box from Comcast.  Everything
>looks cool on the setup.  I've got mysql, lame, qt, etc running on
>Mandriva free 2006.  The motorola box uses a firewire out to transfer
>data and that's where I'm running into the problem.  Everything on the
>OS side looks like 1394 is enabled and working.  I know the port works
>ok because I can do video captures using windows + firewire.
>
>does anyone have experience using myth + firewire.  When I do a
>./configure on myth, the firewire option always comes back "no"
>regardless of what options I try.
>  
>
Do you have the appropriate -dev or -devel packages installed for firewire?

--Yan


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