[mythtv] firewire branch status?

Daniel Kristjansson danielk at cuymedia.net
Sun Apr 1 19:03:04 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 11:36 -0700, Jim Westfall wrote:
> Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote [04.01.07]:
> > Daniel/etc,
> > 
> >  Recently Comcast where I live has removed all signs of 5C over
> > firewire for my box so I've begun playing around with firewire
> > capture. Today I downloaded and compiled the firewire branch from SVN
> > (on both my master backend and my frontend since it appears that the
> > firewire branch uses 32, current trunk uses 33 and fixes uses
> > 31......). The setup seems to work fine and the GUID system is quite
> > cool. The only problem is, where with fixes I can easily record over
> > firewire, with the firewire branch I can't.
> > 
> > So I'm wondering if the branch is in a flux state or if I should be
> > able to record over firewire, and if so, what information I can gather
> > for you to figure out what's going wrong?
> > 
> 
> The firewire branch was merged back into head/trunk a couple months ago.

There were a couple more changes in the branch, but since I no
longer have a firewire cable box those won't be developed any
further, at least by me. Using SVN head is the best option at
this point and I'll delete the firewire branch when I have a
little more time on my hands to do MythTV stuff.

-- Daniel



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