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Mon Oct 30 22:48:16 UTC 2006


before you will be able to get video out of your cable box. Greg was
pointing you to the program that primes the firewire for you setting that
setting to 1. Try it out and if it doesn't work for you post the output from
plugreport before and after running firewire_tester.

Allan

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On 11/4/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rob Baumstark</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:rbaumstark at gmail.com">rbaumstark at gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
&gt; I never received any feedback on the linux1394 mailing list.&nbsp;&nbsp;So I<br>&gt; bought a new firewire card (side note: the original card was $40 at<br>&gt; CompUSA; I'll be taking it back.&nbsp;&nbsp;I ordered a new one from newegg for
<br>&gt; $12!).<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Anyway, now I get the following when I run plugreport:<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Host Adapter 0<br>&gt; ==============<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Node 0 GUID 0x00004c0100003fe7<br>&gt; ------------------------------
<br>&gt; libiec61883 error: error reading oMPR<br>&gt; libiec61883 error: error reading iMPR<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Node 1 GUID 0x0016b5fffeabb4f0<br>&gt; ------------------------------<br>&gt; oMPR n_plugs=1, data_rate=2, bcast_channel=63
<br>&gt; oPCR[0] online=1, bcast_connection=0, n_p2p_connections=0<br>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; channel=1, data_rate=2, overhead_id=0, payload=376<br>&gt; iMPR n_plugs=0, data_rate=2<br><br>You might not want to hear this after spending that cash - but I've
<br>gotten my firewire at least partially working again.&nbsp;&nbsp;Plugreport is<br>reporting stuff exists at least, I haven't yet gotten to the point of<br>trying to capture data over it.&nbsp;&nbsp;I mention it because I'm running the<br>
same firewire hardware as you were - below is my lspci output.<br><br>00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different<br>version?) (rev c1)<br>00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 1 (rev c1)
<br>00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 4 (rev c1)<br>00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 3 (rev c1)<br>00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 2 (rev c1)
<br>00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 5 (rev c1)<br>00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 ISA Bridge (rev a4)<br>00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce2 SMBus (MCP) (rev a2)<br>00:
02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)<br>00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)<br>00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
<br>00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Ethernet<br>Controller (rev a1)<br>00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce Audio<br>Processing Unit (rev a2)<br>00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97
<br>Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1)<br>00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 External PCI Bridge (rev a3)<br>00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2)<br>00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): nVidia Corporation nForce2 FireWire
<br>(IEEE 1394) Controller (rev a3)<br>00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev c1)<br>01:07.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16<br>(CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)<br>01:09.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit
<br>Ethernet Controller (rev 02)<br>02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AP [Radeon 9600]<br>02:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AP [Radeon<br>9600] (Secondary)<br><br>And my plugreport now looks just like yours.&nbsp;&nbsp;Also - I don't seem to
<br>have the ieee1394 module installed.&nbsp;&nbsp;I'm getting by with only the<br>following firewire-related modules loaded.<br><br># lsmod | grep 1394<br>dv1394&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 14420&nbsp;&nbsp;0<br>ohci1394&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 25584&nbsp;&nbsp;1 dv1394<br>
raw1394&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;19892&nbsp;&nbsp;0<br><br><br>&gt; I have only the cable STB plugged into the firewire card.&nbsp;&nbsp;So I'm not<br>&gt; sure if the STB is on node 0 or 1.<br><br>Its on node 1.<br><br>&gt; Either way, test-mpeg2 &gt; file produces an empty (zero byte) file.
<br><br>Try the stuff over at:&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/FireWire">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/FireWire</a><br>I've had better luck in the past in p2p mode than broadcast - but I<br>think the userbase is split almost 50/50 between them as to what works
<br>better, so experiment with both till it works.<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users at mythtv.org">mythtv-users at mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></blockquote></div><br>From my experience you have to get the p2p setting on plugreport to equal 1 before you will be able to get video out of your cable box. Greg was pointing you to the program that primes the firewire for you setting that setting to 1. Try it out and if it doesn't work for you post the output from plugreport before and after running firewire_tester.
<br><br>Allan<br>

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