[mythtv-users] Firewire success stories?

[Michael Haan]

On 2/15/05, Brad House <mythtv at mainstreetsoftworks.com> wrote:
> Just worked for me, on Gentoo ... though I'm running
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~amd64
> (if you're running a stable branch, perhaps it's got
> too old a version of autoconf or automake ...)
> 
> Also, make sure you do not have WANT_AUTOCONF or WANT_AUTOMAKE
> set in your environment, as it will use something other than
> default if you do, which might be buggy...
> 
> These are the steps I took:
> 
> # emerge libieee1394
> # emerge subversion
> # svn checkout svn://svn.linux1394.org/libiec61883/trunk/ libiec61883
> # cd libiec61883
> # unset WANT_AUTOCONF
> # unset WANT_AUTOMAKE
> # ./autogen.sh
> # ./configure --prefix=/usr
> # make
> # make install
> 
> Then don't forget to add 'firewire' to your USE flags before
> emerging mythtv, otherwise it won't have firewire support.
> 
> -Brad
> 
> Scott Alfter wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 04:43:01PM -0500, Jim Coates wrote:
> >
> >>I did emerge libraw1394 1.1.0 and downloaded and built the latest
> >>libiec61883 as well.
> >
> >
> > By saying that you emerged libraw1394, I assume you're using Gentoo.  So am
> > I, and I've run into a problem building libiec61883.  There's no ebuild for
> > it, so I fetched a tarball from http://www.linux1394.org/viewcvs/libiec61883/
> > and tried running autoconf on that.  I keep running into errors, though:
> >
> > configure.ac:4: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
> >       If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
> >       See the Autoconf documentation.
> > configure.ac:5: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONFIG_HEADER
> > configure.ac:8: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PROG_LIBTOOL
> >
> > I let "emerge autoconf automake" pull in several different versions of each,
> > but even after that, I'm still running into trouble.  How did you get the
> > build to work?  Does autoconf need some options passed to it?  I just picked
> > up an SA3250 this afternoon, and I'd like to see if the FireWire outputs on
> > it work.
> >
> >   _/_
> >  / v \ Scott Alfter (remove the obvious to send mail)
> > (IIGS( http://alfter.us/            Top-posting!
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> >
> >
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So, here's what I've done so far:

Installed libraw1394, lib61883 and built Myth 0.18 on Gentoo.  I've
secured a SA3250 and connected it to my Myth box via firewire.  Bought
an HDTV which will arrive any day now.  Checked dmesg and it looks
like the cable box is on node 0

ieee1394: Node added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023]  GUID[000f213ef5a80000]
ieee1394: Node changed: 0-00:1023 -> 0-01:1023
ieee1394: Node changed: 0-01:1023 -> 0-00:1023
ieee1394: Node suspended: ID:BUS[0-00:1023]  GUID[000f213ef5a80000]
ieee1394: Current remote IRM is not 1394a-2000 compliant, resetting...
ieee1394: Error parsing configrom for node 0-00:1023
ieee1394: Node changed: 0-00:1023 -> 0-01:1023
ieee1394: Node resumed: ID:BUS[0-00:1023]  GUID[000f213ef5a80000]

So, what next?  How do I test that I'm getting data over the firewire
port, and how do I build what I need to so that Myth can recieve
content via firewire and change channels via firewire?