[mythtv-users] Firewire stops working -- and how to record twice?

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:47 AM, Brad Templeton
> <brad+myth at templetons.com> wrote:
>> Alas, this is not my problem.  Restart of mythbackend does not fix it.
>
> Hmm.  Interesting.  It seems that everyone with one of these boxes has
> a slightly different experience.  I don't know what the variable is.
>
> Are you getting the behavior that the show appears to record, and is
> available from the watch recordings menu, but when you try to play it
> it says that the recording could not be found and the only thing you
> can do is cancel or delete the entry?
>
>> I am wondering if it's my firewire chip (on mobo) or driver, and whether
>> putting in a pci firewire card would help (I would have to lose my
>> pvr-150 card to do that, but in theory I would not need it any more)
>
> I had an Athlon system with firewire on a PCI card when I first got
> this STB, but I upgraded to a Core2 Duo with firewire on the
> motherboard about a month later.  This made no difference in the STB's
> reliability or lack there of.
>
> It's very frustrating.
>
> Eric

Eric,
   You should consider bringing this problem to the linux1394-users
list. There have been a LOT of changes to 1394 support over the last
12-18 months. Depending on the kernel you are running  there is a
completely new driver stack. Certainly 1394 devices work well while
others hardly work at all. Stefan Richter can give you some insights
and direct you into how to find the root cause.

- Mark