[mythtv-users] Firewire problem with Shaw Cable

[Tim Korsrud]

kanetse at gmail.com wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Tim Korsrud <public at korsrud.com> wrote:
>   
>> I have a Pace 775D that has been working to record via firewire. On Oct 15
>> it stopped recording.  The channel changing is working, but recoded files
>> are empty. When I go to the diagnostics page 21, the 1394 status is listed
>> is disabled.  Does this mean that something has changed on shaw's end? I
>> don't recall what it said when it was working.
>>
>> I also have a motorola DCT-6200 that is mostly working via firewire.  I say
>> mostly working because some channels do not work correctly, but the DCT-6200
>> had these problems before.
>>     
>
> Hi,
>
> I own a DCT-6416 and DCT6200 and have been seeing the same problems
> (channel changing works; but zero-length recordings) intermittently
> ever since I got the boxes over a year ago.  I suspect the problem is
> not on Shaw's end, because if I restart mythbackend in the middle of a
> recording a zero-length show recording, the show will sometimes
> restart recording properly.
>
> This has resulted in about 25% to 33% of my shows not being recorded
> at all.  I would love to find some way of deleting these zero-length
> recordings and rescheduling them so that I can at least catch the West
> Coast feeds (even in SD, if needed).
>
> I am also on Shaw on Vancouver, BC.
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The DCT-6200 has always had zero length recordings on certain channels.  
While the pace box was better at recording all of the channels.  Nothing 
I seem to do now with retstarting mythtv or the cable box seems to get 
the pace box working again.  I am pretty sure it did not say disabled in 
the pace diagnostics page, but I can't remember for sure, as it has been 
a while since I looked at it.

Tim