[mythtv-users] using both firewire and svideo

Daniel Agar daniel at agar.ca
Tue Jun 26 05:58:54 UTC 2007


> On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 18:10 -0400, Raphael wrote:
>> Well, it looks like input groups worked. What I did was make an input
>> group called cable box and added both the svideo input of the pvr 150
>> and the firewire input to it. Now when something is recording on one it
>> treats a recording on the other as a conflict and reassigns it to the
>> coax input of the other pvr-150 if possible.
>
> Good to hear.
>
>> So that worked great. There were a few hitches though:
>>
>> It seems that I couldn't compile the multirec branch of mythtv as
>> provided in svn for some reason.
>> I got the error
>> xmlparse.o: file not recognized: File truncated
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> A 'make distclean' should fix this, xmlparse hasn't been changed
> at all in this branch.
>
>> Three other small problems came about as a result of this as well. One,
>> the up and down keys no longer change channels properly: they instead
>> reset the channel on any input back the starting channel. So if I'm on
>
> I made some fixes to channel changing in the last couple weeks,
> you may want to try an update.
>
>> Anyone else using this branch have any experience with this?
>
> Raphael, as far as I know you are the only person in the whole
> wide world using thing branch with a firewire recorder. :)
> There are only a half dozen people using it for any purpose.
>
> If you decide to use this rather than just testing it for a
> few hours and then reinstalling the backed up db, just make
> sure that you look at dbcheck.cpp the next time you re-install, in case
> there are any db updates you need to apply manually.
> SVN branches other than head and 0.xx-fixes are not guaranteed
> to update nicely to the next version.
>
> -- Daniel
>

I'd really like to try this as well. If I were to try this branch would I
need to compile all my myth components from the same branch or do I just
need the same protocol version? I have several frontends and backends and
only one STB I'd like to try in this manner.

Daniel



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