[mythtv-users] Firewire does it work at 100% if so what do you use

Astie, Sebastien sastie at us.nomura.com
Thu Apr 19 15:19:24 UTC 2007


Hi,
I picked up 4 cable boxes (SA4250HD) at my local cablevision store.
They all have the firewire enabled, when I hooked up one of them to my
motherboard onboard firewire, I got to get all the HD channels in clear
(even the premium ones) then suddenly they vanished. I have 3 HDHomerun
boxes that tune the QAM local channels they are rock solid. 
There have bee lots of instances where test-mpeg2 was getting the stream
perfectly but not mythtv.
Now I cannot even get test-mpeg2 to produce any file (size is always
zero) but plugreport shows my cable boxes properly.

I tried the following firewire cards to no avail:

Gigabyte K8NS Ultra 939 (nforce 3 ultra) onboard firewire.
(http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?
ProductID=1839&ModelName=GA-K8NS%20Ultra-939)


Ultra Products ULT31342 3-Port 1394 Firewire PCI Card
(http://www.jr.com/JRProductPage.process?Product=4077753)

Rosewill RC-502 NEC 3+1 Port Firewire/1394a PCI Card (ULEAD 8.0 VS-SE +
Cable Bundle) Model RC-502 - Retail - Retail 
(http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16815265003)

SYBA PCI to Firewire 1394a 3+1 ports controller card Model SD-NEC-4F -
Retail
(http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16815124003)


If there is some of you out there who make the firewire input works
reliably please tell me what you are using as Firewire card and
hardware...

BTW I am running a AMD 64 X2 4400 with 4GB of RAM on Fedora Core 6
x86_64 with 2.6.20-1.2944 kernel.

Thanks



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