[mythtv-users] firewire capture freezes fairly often - Motorola DCT 6200
Curtis Stanford
curtis at stanfordcomputing.com
Fri Mar 21 18:40:30 UTC 2008
On 20-Mar-08, at 6:18 PM, Damen Cole wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using MythTV 0.21 release on a high end server (a dedicated
> master backend) with a PCI firewire card (NEC chipset I believe)
> connected to a Motorola DCT 6200. I am experiencing a problem where
> periodically (~once every 4 hours of watched/recorded TV - more
> frequent with HD) the backend and cable box stop talking. In order
> to fix the problem I have to fiddle with the firewire speed settings
> (i.e. broadcast -> p2p -> broadcast and back). Sometimes I even have
> to shutdown the cable box and server in order to get the data
> flowing again.
Hi Damen, I have the same box as you and am running 100% stable right
now with 0.21. I use to run broadcast without much problem but then I
followed the wiki at http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/FireWire and
followed the instructions for p2p setup. It's been working perfectly
ever since. I think the kernel is important, also. This firewire stuff
has some bugs in earlier versions. Try to run at least a 2.6.24 kernel.
Curtis
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