[mythtv-users] firewire recording problems

Jean Connelly unksme at gmail.com
Wed Jun 8 00:34:31 UTC 2005


Regarding:

On 6/7/05, Scott Zadigian <scott.zadigian at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just spent the weekend getting my first myth box up and running
> using the excellent "fedora myth how-to" guide and I'm having a little
> trouble with firewire recordings. I have the Motorola 6400 box and can
> sucessfully use 'test-mpeg2 -r 1' to capture HDTV onto my HD. However,
> when I setup my mythbackend and configure the firewire recording
> device as...

> 2005-06-05 21:32:55.081 Firewire: Initializing Port: 0, Node: 1, Speed: 100Mbps

Have you tried repeating the recording and moving the firewire plug to
different jacks? Or experimenting with different Port/Node
combinations?  I didn't come across docs on that and my biggest
problem was getting the correct jack.  Trial and error worked for me.

-Jean


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