<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Mark Staudinger <<a href="mailto:mark@mark.staudinger.net">mark@mark.staudinger.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">fuzziel300 wrote:<br>
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> What's also interesting to note that sometimes I don't reset anything, other<br>
> than maybe a reboot or just turning off SA4250, all of a sudden firewire<br>
> starts working ok after not working for several weeks.<br>
<br>
</div></div>This is how it used to fail for me - the channel change would work, but<br>
mythbackend never received a stream - I would see "Warning: No Input in<br>
XXmsec..." a few times, and then it would give up. Now, instead of giving<br>
up on the recording, it will reset the firewire bus and begin streaming<br>
again. I still sometimes see the "No Input" messages, but then I get the<br>
normal "Buffered packets 2000 (8000 KB)" which indicates the stream in<br>
progress.<br>
<br>
I'm not sure if this will work for you, but before BusReset did its magic,<br>
this was my method, which had about a 75% rate of success.<br>
<br>
1) halt the backend<br>
<br>
2) remove 1394 cable from back of STB<br>
<br>
3) power-cycle the STB (just power off/on on front panel)<br>
<br>
4) when STB is booted, plug in 1394 cable<br>
<br>
4) reboot backend<br>
<br>
Also note that my STB had two 1394 ports, and one of them (the inboard<br>
port) was more reliable, in that it had a slightly higher chance of<br>
responding to the reboot.<br>
<br>
You say you are not running SVN. That's fine... but are you installing<br>
from packages, or from source? If you're installing from source then you<br>
can at least check linuxfirewiredevice.cpp to see how it handles the<br>
BusReset function.<br>
<br>
FWIW the version I was running previously (which was the first SVN I<br>
installed that didn't need the BusReset tweaking) was from October 2007.<br>
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Cheers<br>
-=Mark<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br><br>
Thanks, when I am not afraid of throwing out my back I will try this exact method.<br>
<br>
Here's something interesting that just happened. I am in Cablevision
land on the NJ side. I see it tried to record at 4:30pm on channel 720
HD "Hard water 505 World Championships", which has a 0 byte file.
Earlier today it recorded Hard Water no problem. It's now recording
Channel 48 SD "Grendel" through firewire. I started to play Grendel
back and it works fine. <br>
<br>
I install from packages ...MythDora. I have the 169 build (svn 14921) from <a href="http://atrpms.net">atrpms.net</a> from November 20th.<br>
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