[mythtv-users] Stabalizing Firewire?

[Steven Adeff]

On 5/10/07, David Frascone <dave at frascone.com> wrote:
> Steven Adeff wrote:
> > On 5/9/07, David Frascone <dave at frascone.com> wrote:
> >> On Wednesday, 09 May 2007, Steven Adeff wrote:
> >>>> Something really screwy is going on -- I can't seem to schedule any
> >>>> recordings on my firewire tuner.  I have logs at
> >>>> http://frascone.com/log.txt.gz  (-v most).  Does anyone see anything
> >>>> wrong in the logs?  (I'm trying to schedule recordings on mythweb.  All
> >>>> other tuners seem to record fine.  But the firewire one (STB) is somehow
> >>>> broked.
> >>>>
> >>> do you have a lineup assigned to the firewire tuner?
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Of course.
> >>
> >> Last night, I completely re-did my tuners, w/o firewire.  I simply need that
> >> tuner to be stable.  (I'm now using svideo out from the stb (but I am changing
> >> channels via firewire)
> >>
> >> -Dave
> >>
> >
> > so assigning your firewire lineup to a PVR card and its scheduling
> > fine but not when you have it assigned to the firewire connection?
> >
> Scheduling was never an issue.  The problem is, sometimes video over
> firewire completely stops working.  And, once, everything went screwy,
> and the firewire disappeared, requiring a reboot.  But, that has only
> happened once.
>
> My main issue is that firewire video will work for a while, but then it
> will stop, until I run firewire_tester again. and/or reboot the STB.
> Since my wife would kill me if she missed the Sopranos, this is a very
> big deal.
>
> It's easier to just grab the channel over s-video and not have the problems.


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Steve
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