[mythtv-users] Can not add Firewire capture in .21-172-trunk
Gregg
3gemail at gmail.com
Thu Dec 13 19:34:07 UTC 2007
> > I recently upgraded to fc8 after a system crash, most things work with
> > some minor tweaking, which I expected. I can now capture manually from
> > firewire, but Mythtv does not report the firewire port as an encoder.
> > I am using trunk .21-172 from atrpms. When I create the firewire
> > capture card in mythtvsetup there is an option for GUID, but the
> > dropdown menu does not work. I think this is why it does not report
> > itself as a capture card in mythtv. Is there a way to manually update
> > the database with the GUID I get from plugreport?
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> I think you need to use this:
> http://atrpms.net/dist/f8/ieee1394/
>
> Axel just posted on this list about it a few minutes ago, but for the
> el5 distribution.
>
>
Thanks. Already have that installed. I found out that it does not
let me have access to the port unless I run mythtvsetup as root. Now
the system works, but the firewire is still a little flakey.
-Gregg
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