That does sound perfect, could you post the code? <br><br>Thanks<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/17/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Eric Smith</b> <<a href="mailto:erictsmith@gmail.com">erictsmith@gmail.com</a>
> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">That sounds like exactly what i was thinking about. Would you mind<br>posting what you have?
<br><br>On 11/17/06, John P Poet <<a href="mailto:jppoet@gmail.com">jppoet@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> On 11/17/06, Eric Smith <<a href="mailto:erictsmith@gmail.com">erictsmith@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > Just thinking out loud here.... I to have a 3250HD box with firewire
<br>> > working fairly reliablly as long as i stay within the non 5c channels.<br>> > However, I'm also feeding an s-video stream from the same cable box<br>> > for channels which are not available over the firewire connection. So
<br>> > quite frequently i will hit one of those channels that the firewire<br>> > connection can not recover from. Typically when i see this i just<br>> > unplug the firewire from the cable box for a few seconds, plug it back
<br>> > in and everything is up and running again. Unfortunately, this is not<br>> > good for the WAF when I'm not around to notice and Grey's Anatomy<br>> > records as an empty file.<br>> ><br>> > So my thought is, there are several versions of scripts out there now
<br>> > that can be used to "prime" the firewire connection and make sure it<br>> > is available. I haven't used them myself yet, but assuming they are<br>> > not too resource/time consuming... would it be possible to set it up
<br>> > to always check the connection and rerun one of these types of scripts<br>> > before changing the channel to something on the firewire input?<br>> ><br>> > And a follow-up (perhaps wish-list thought). Is there a way (or could
<br>> > there be) to associate an HD channel to its equivalent non hd channel.<br>> > So in the example above, myth starts the recording of Grey's Anatomy<br>> > on the HD channel.... immediately recognizes that the firewire
<br>> > connection is not available and switches the recording the the non HD<br>> > equivalent.<br>> ><br>> > Like i said... just thinking out loud.<br>><br>> I have something like this setup for myself.
<br>><br>> I use Jim Westfall firewire_tester app within my channel changing<br>> program to make sure I am getting good data. If the firewire_tester<br>> does not report a good video stream, then my program tries to change
<br>> the channel again, followed by another run of firewire_tester, this<br>> time with the -R option, which resets the firewire bus.<br>><br>> For me, the above means that my channel changes are now 100% reliable,
<br>> instead of 97%.<br>><br>> Only gotcha, is it can take my SA3250HD box up to 5 full seconds to<br>> change the channel. Until it successfully changes to the new channel,<br>> it will continue to stream data from the previous channel. This means
<br>> that after issue the channel change command, my program has to wait 5<br>> seconds before it can trust the output from firewire_tester.<br>><br>> John<br>> _______________________________________________
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