[mythtv-users] Firewire stability/reliability DCT6200

[Justin Kim]

I've occasionally had problems getting firewire to work after hitting 
an encrypted channel, too.  If you have this problem, you may want to 
manually change the channel to a known safe station (either on the 
box itself or using 6200ch) and try again.

Also, firewire_tester (don't know if it's included in the default 
myth install - it's there in mythdora) can be used to stabilize 
broken firewire connections.

Broadcast and P2P are two ways you can record programs over firewire. 
I don't know what the technical difference is between the two, but 
sometimes if you have problems with one method, the other will work. 
I couldn't get P2P to work reliably on my 6200 and moving to 
Broadcast fixed things.

Justin


At 12:14 PM -0700 2/4/08, Mark Hutchinson wrote:
>When you hit that encrypted channel, are you able to change channel to
>another one and have it working again?
>When this happens to mine, it seems to lock things up.  Meaning I cant
>change to another channel, and a test-mpeg2 results in no data either.
>That is why I was wondering if it was something firewire related.
>I do have it set to broadcast and 400 for speed.
>
>What does broadcast and P2P mean?  I am not familiar with it.
>
>Thanks!
>
>
>Robert McNamara wrote:
>>  In general, the long pause followed by being dumped back to the menu
>>  means the channel is set to copy-none (encrypted) and you won't be
>>  able to tune it via firewire.  Keep in mind that the encryption is
>>  often on a per-program basis, so you may be able to tune a given
>>  channel for one program and not for the next.  I run into this with my
>>  HBO HD, for example. Some shows will record fine, others won't.
>>
>>  You may want to look into whether the tuning works more reliably in
>>  broadcast mode than P2P mode.  I presume, based on the informed way
>>  you are talking about it, that you have followed the wiki page, but if
>>  you haven't make sure to check that out as it helped me through most
>>  of my firewire tuning problems.
>>
>>  Robert
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