[mythtv-users] Firewire troubles Motorola 6412

[Steven Adeff]

On 6/11/06, Greg Woods <greg at gregandeva.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 13:36 -0500, Allan Wilson wrote:
> >  Let us know how it is going.
>
> Unfortunately, it appears I spoke too soon. The first time I ran the
> plugctl script, the firewire worked for a little while. I was able to
> get a nonempty file out of test-mpeg2, and one recording I scheduled
> through Myth as a test came out well. But when I tried to record the MLB
> game on ESPNHD tonight, once again I am back to nothing but empty files.
> I have tried rerunning the script several times, and rebooting, and
> powering off the cable box, and I am back to square one: nothing but
> empty files off the firewire.

set your 6412 to use Broadcast in mythtv-setup, power down/unplug the
myth machine and the cable box, make sure the firewire cable is
connected, power both up. stop using the plugctl script.

-- 
Steve
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