[mythtv-users] Firewire and DCT-6200

Big Wave Dave bigwavedave at gmail.com
Thu Oct 13 16:17:15 UTC 2005


On 10/13/05, Devan Lippman <devan.lippman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/13/05, Steve Adeff <adeffs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thursday 13 October 2005 01:09, Curtis Stanford wrote:
> > >
> > > So what's the difference between us and the people who seem to have
> > > it working 100% ? I'm still thinking it may be the card or perhaps
> > > the linux driver. I'm hoping anyone who is having success with this
> > > mail in with their configurations.
> > >
> > > Curtis
> >
> > I was going to ask the same thing, I'm getting a firewire cable box soon
> > and
> > hope to get it working. I don't run Fedora, so I won't be using the
> > "ATrpms"
> > people talk about, but it would be interesting to get further
> > information on
> > this, if its the firewire chipset, the compilation of MythTV, the DCT
> > box
> > itself, etc....
> >
> > I'll be able to throw my 2cents in when I get my card.
> >
> > Steve
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>
> I run from source but I'm able to record with 100% reliability over
> firewire. It probably should be noted that I only use the old analog
> channels (below 100) and not any of the digital channels.
>  00:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host
> Controller (rev 46)
>  I have libiec61883 installed (no idea the version, its all source and
> relatively old)
> libraw1394-1.2.0
> libavc1394-0.5.0
> gscanbus-0.7.1
> kernel 2.6.8.1 <http://2.6.8.1>
>  You shouldn't need all of that but its working so I haven't done any
> house cleaning. I do remember that I had to change my node ID manually when
> I first started using MythTV with firewire, but that seems to have been
> fixed.
>
>
> --
> Devan Lippman <devan at lippman dot net>
>

Perhaps the ATrpms, are missing some updates that improve FireWire
performance?!

Dave
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