[mythtv-users] Firewire Problems, was working

[Allan Wilson]

On 9/13/06, Greg Mitchell <greg at nodecam.com> wrote:
>
> Allan Wilson wrote:
> >
> >     I'm far from an expert, but are you sure that it's the firewire
> that's
> >     not working here?  To me, that log looks more like it's maybe a
> >     playback
> >     problem.  Have you tried scheduling a recording just to see if
> >     Myth is
> >     able to capture data, then playing it back in mplayer or something?
> >
> >     Greg
> >
> >
> > Both recordings and livetv go to either the black screen or the white
> > noise screen. I do think it is a mythfrontend playback issue but I
> > can't figure out how to test it any better.
> >
> > Allan
> So, did mplayer do the same thing?  Did the scheduled recording actually
> create a file, or was it 0 bytes?
>
> I wonder if your xorg.conf is messed up or something.  Not that I'm much
> help in that arena either ;)  Just trying to suggest where I'd look next.
>
> Greg
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Sorry I am just now getting back to posting but I went out of town. I just
sat down and played with it a little and it turns out that having the second
cable box plugged in to the firewire card was enough to cause Myth not to
show anything over firewire. Next I am going to try daisy chaining instead
of directly plugging both in to the firewire card to see if that makes a
difference. Right now I have the following problems with two SA3250HD cable
boxes:

1) Two SA3250HD cables boxes does not appear to work with MythTV although it
works fine with test-mpeg2.
2) The channel change command only works on one box. You cannot specify
nodes.

I am definately not complaining though I am happy to get one working and
maybe I can figure out how to get both working. Just thought I would post in
case anyone runs across the same problems as me. Thanks

Allan
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