[mythtv-users] No GUID showing up in Firewire capture card setup

[Michael T. Dean]

On 05/14/2010 08:55 PM, Bob Shanteau wrote:
> Greg Woods wrote:
>> Or, as someone else suggested, perhaps the cable boxes don't actually 
>> have active firewire ports.
>
> I checked with Comcast and they showed me the hidden diagnostic menu 
> that shows the firewire ports are enabled but not active.
>
>> Have you tried connecting any other firewire devices to see if they 
>> at least show up in plugreport?
>
> The cable box is the only Firewire device I have.

Or, as some others (who are smarter than me) have said (I'm just 
relaying a message here--I know nothing of firewire), maybe Motorola 
added a new model ID number for your box and you just need to add that 
to firewiredevice.cpp .

6200ch -v -v <somenumber>

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/6200ch

and

http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/23647/trunk/mythtv/libs/libmythtv/firewiredevice.cpp

Mike