[mythtv-users] Firewire recording: Every OTHER one works!

[Steven Adeff]

On 2/22/06, Yeechang Lee <ylee at pobox.com> wrote:
> Drew Zerdecki <dzerdecki at gmail.com> says:
> > Hello, I have never been able to get firewire recording with my
> > SA3250 quite right.
>
> [...]
>
> > Anyway, I schedule several programs to b= e recorded on local
> > network channels (none of which are 5C).  Every other o= ne works,
> > while the others error with the "No Input in 15 seconds" message
>
> Common complaint with FireWire, whether with the Scientific-Atlanta or
> Motorola boxes. Of my two Motorola boxes one exhibits a similar
> symptom. Check out what I wrote up at
> <URL:http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/FireWire>, in particular the
> script (for which I can't take credit); it's helped quite a bit.
>
> --
> Yeechang Lee <ylee at pobox.com> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US

Yeechang,

 That script is being overwritten by whatever settings you have in
mythtv for that tuner. Do you have your Motorola boxes setup for
broadcast instead of p2p? Are you using the new method in the 6200ch
channel change program in the contrib folder?

--
Steve