[mythtv-users] Firewire in Myth

[Allan Wilson]

On 5/11/06, Allan Wilson <allanwilson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I finally can receive video from my cable box using test-mpeg and I ran
> mythtv-setup and setup everything correctly I believe:
>
> Card Type: FireWire cable box
> Cable box model: SA3250HD
> Connection Type: Point to Point
> IEEE-1394 Port: 0
> Node: 0
> Speed: 400 Mbps
> Default Input: Mpeg2ts
>
> I found the port and node from plugreport
>
>  Host Adapter 0
> =======
>
> Node 0 GUID 0x00169205a0d00000
> ------------------------------
> oMPR n_plugs=1, data_rate=2, bcast_channelc
> oPCR[0] online=1, bcast_connection=0, n_p2p_connections=1
>         channel=0, data_rate=2, overhead_id=0, payload6
> iMPR n_plugs=0, data_rate=2
>
> Node 1 GUID 0x00004c0100004195
> ------------------------------
> libiec61883 error: error reading oMPR
> libiec61883 error: error reading iMPR
>
> But when I go to watch live television now it is going to a black screen
> for 15 seconds then coming back to the main myth menu.
>
> 2006-05-11 01:46:28.158 TVRec(4): Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
> libiec61883 warning: Overlayed connection on channel 0.
> You may need to manually set the channel on the receiving node.
> 2006-05-11 01:46:28.257 FireRec: Buffered packets 2350 (9400 KB)
> 2006-05-11 01:46:34.846 TVRec(4): Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
> 2006-05-11 01:46:43.274 FireRec: No Input in 15 seconds [P:0 N:0] (select)
> 2006-05-11 01:46:43.290 Finished recording Charter Channel: channel 1001
>
> Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks for any help
>
> Allan
>
>
I was just looking at the output of my frontend and I did see this in the
output:

0: start_time: 0.036 duration: 161.679
1: start_time: 0.026 duration: 161.661
stream: start_time: 0.289 duration: 1796.539 bitrateQ90 kb/s
2006-05-11 01:56:42.575 AFD: Opened codec 0x900bcc0, id(MPEG2VIDEO)
type(Video)
2006-05-11 01:56:42.575 AFD: Opened codec 0x8402040, id(MP2) type(Audio)
[mpeg2video @ 0xb740b704]invalid cbp at 25 7
[mpeg2video @ 0xb740b704]Warning MVs not available
2006-05-11 01:56:44.554 TV: Attempting to change from None to WatchingLiveTV
2006-05-11 01:56:44.560 Using protocol version 29
2006-05-11 01:56:44.677 RingBuf(/video/tv/1001_20060511015644.mpg): Invalid
file (fd 22) when opening '/video/tv/1001_20060511015644.mpg'. 12 retries
remaining.
2006-05-11 01:56:45.179 RingBuf(/video/tv/1001_20060511015644.mpg): Invalid
file (fd 22) when opening '/video/tv/1001_20060511015644.mpg'. 11 retries
remaining.
2006-05-11 01:56:45.681 RingBuf(/video/tv/1001_20060511015644.mpg): Invalid
file (fd 22) when opening '/video/tv/1001_20060511015644.mpg'. 10 retries
remaining.
2006-05-11 01:56:46.183 RingBuf(/video/tv/1001_20060511015644.mpg): Invalid
file (fd 22) when opening '/video/tv/1001_20060511015644.mpg'. 9 retries
remaining.
2006-05-11 01:56:46.685 RingBuf(/video/tv/1001_20060511015644.mpg): Invalid
file (fd 22) when opening '/video/tv/1001_20060511015644.mpg'. 8 retries
remaining.
2006-05-11 01:56:47.187 RingBuf(/video/tv/1001_20060511015644.mpg): Invalid
file (fd 22) when opening '/video/tv/1001_20060511015644.mpg'. 7 retries
remaining.
2006-05-11 01:56:47.689 RingBuf(/video/tv/1001_20060511015644.mpg): Invalid
file (fd 22) when opening '/video/tv/1001_20060511015644.mpg'. 6 retries
remaining.
2006-05-11 01:56:48.191 RingBuf(/video/tv/1001_20060511015644.mpg): Invalid
file (fd 22) when opening '/video/tv/1001_20060511015644.mpg'. 5 retries
remaining.
2006-05-11 01:56:48.693 RingBuf(/video/tv/1001_20060511015644.mpg): Invalid
file (fd 22) when opening '/video/tv/1001_20060511015644.mpg'. 4 retries
remaining.
2006-05-11 01:56:49.194 RingBuf(/video/tv/1001_20060511015644.mpg): Invalid
file (fd 22) when opening '/video/tv/1001_20060511015644.mpg'. 3 retries
remaining.
2006-05-11 01:56:49.696 RingBuf(/video/tv/1001_20060511015644.mpg): Invalid
file (fd 22) when opening '/video/tv/1001_20060511015644.mpg'. 2 retries
remaining.
2006-05-11 01:56:50.198 RingBuf(/video/tv/1001_20060511015644.mpg): Invalid
file (fd 22) when opening '/video/tv/1001_20060511015644.mpg'. 1 retries
remaining.
2006-05-11 01:56:50.700 RingBuf(/video/tv/1001_20060511015644.mpg): Invalid
file (fd 22) when opening '/video/tv/1001_20060511015644.mpg'. 0 retries
remaining.
2006-05-11 01:56:51.227 NVP::OpenFile(): Error, file not found:
/video/tv/1001_20060511015644.mpg
2006-05-11 01:56:51.228 TV Error: StartPlayer(): NVP is not playing after
20000 msec
2006-05-11 01:56:59.733 TV Error: LiveTV not successfully started

 Also when I was testing with test-mpeg I also got the message about
libiec61883
warning so I think it is safe to ignore that error.

Allan
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