[mythtv-users] SVN 8625 Firewire capture glitching while test-mpeg2 doesn't

Curtis Stanford curtis at stanfordcomputing.com
Fri Jan 20 20:18:52 UTC 2006


There's a patch I applied to kernel 2.6.14 that totally cleared up my  
firewire problems. If you use 2.6.15, it includes the patch. I  
believe it was made specifically for DCT-6200 issues.

On Jan 20, 2006, at 11:34 AM, Steve Adeff wrote:

> On Friday 20 January 2006 13:14, Brian Fischer wrote:
>>> As an experiement, I ran a test-mpeg2 capture on the same channel  
>>> (though
> the channel doesn't matter), grabbed 1.8GB and played through the  
> internal
> player using MythVideo. This method results in a glitch free  
> capture for the
> 17mins of video.
>
>> I am not sure that this may be due to MythTV.  Do you have 100%  
>> success on
>> Captureing with test-mpeg2?
>
> so far yes, 100% in getting a stream and 100% in the stream having  
> no issues
> as played back from the internal player. Capturing in MythTV is  
> 100% in
> gettin a stream as well, its just every so often the datastream  
> glitches.
>
>
>> I seem to be able to capture video using the test-mpeg2 capture
>> inconsistently.
>> I use the following commands and only get capture about 1/10  
>> times, but
>> always
>> The first time after a reboot:
>
> try setting p2p=1 instead of broadcast when using test-mpeg2, this  
> fixed it
> for me.
>
> -- 
> Steve
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