[mythtv-users] Comcast and Firewire 5c

Adam Propeck adam at propeck.com
Tue Jan 10 08:01:28 UTC 2006


Nice! Seems like that would certainly save people some time. I'm on Charter
and VERY happy that they aren't doing ANY 5c.

On 1/10/06, Ian Forde <ian at duckland.org> wrote:
>
> Given the recent conversations concerning firewire issues, I found it
> ironic that Comcast just changed a bunch of my channels to do 5c over
> firewire.  But since I have *absolutely* no desire to test each channel
> to see if it works, then check the DCT-6200 menu to verify it, I did
> what any decent sysadmin would do:
>
> I replaced the task with a small shell script. ;)  Given a list of
> channels in the INFILE, it generates an OUTFILE that contains which
> channels it can record.  You'll need a copy of test-mpeg2.  Feel free to
> modify the script for your needs... the output from the script can then
> be used to remap your channels on zap2it...
>
>         -Ian (who wonders why he didn't do this a year ago...)
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> GETCH=/usr/local/src/libiec61883-1.0.0/examples/test-mpeg2
> INFILE=/tmp/listofchannels.txt
> OUTFILE=/tmp/chanscan.txt
>
> cat /dev/null > ${OUTFILE}
>
> while read channum
> do
>         /usr/local/bin/6200ch ${channum}
>         ${GETCH} -r 2 > /tmp/testscan.${channum} &
>         sleep 5
>         kill -2 $!
>         sizeoffile=`wc -c /tmp/testscan.${channum} | awk '{print $1}'`
>         if [ ${sizeoffile} -gt 1500000 ]; then
>                 echo "valid channel ${channum}" >> ${OUTFILE}
>         else
>                 echo "invalid channel ${channum}" >> ${OUTFILE}
>         fi
> done < ${INFILE}
>
>         -I
>
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