[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #3016: Firewire random recording

[Jim Westfall]

It sounds like you need to be using broadcast.  Have you looked at 
firewire_tester in contrib/?  It can help you verify this if you run 
firewire_tester -n 0 -B.

jim

MythTV <mythtv at cvs.mythtv.org> wrote [01.29.07]:
> #3016: Firewire random recording
> -------------------------+--------------------------------------------------
>  Reporter:  SlicerDicer  |       Owner:  ijr    
>      Type:  defect       |      Status:  new    
>  Priority:  minor        |   Milestone:  unknown
> Component:  mythtv       |     Version:  head   
>  Severity:  high         |  
> -------------------------+--------------------------------------------------
>  Firewire does not record reliable on many boxes I have tested. In
>  Washington State with Comcast and with Cableone in New Mexico this has
>  been reproduceable for me everytime. DCT6200, DCT3120? I think that was
>  the model, DCT6416.
> 
>  When recording I get random recording. Sometimes it will record sometimes
>  it will not.  I cannot get bcast to work I can get p2p to work however. In
>  order to get p2p to work I must do the following,
> 
>  plugctl -n 1 oPCR[0].n_p2p_connections=1[[BR]]
>  test-mpeg2 -r 1 > /root/foo.mpg[[BR]]
>  check see if file has any data if not [[BR]]
>  plugctl -n 1 oPCR[0].n_p2p_connections=0[[BR]]
>  plugctl -n 1 oPCR[0].n_p2p_connections=1[[BR]]
>  test-mpeg2 -r 1 > /root/foo.mpg[[BR]]
> 
> 
>  rinse/repeat till it shows data in the file once I do I leave p2p set to
>  =1 and I can record flawlessly all the time. However if I do not do this
>  it will have a random chance to record.
> 
>  The following script is attached of what I wrote that allowed me to let it
>  work till .20 and I am able to use it again now. This will give a idea of
>  what is going on as well.
> 
> -- 
> Ticket URL: <http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/3016>
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