[mythtv-users] Live TV problem

[Yuri Shirman]

The capture device is FIrewire, I am using Motorola DCH-3416 STB from Cox,
It is connected to my oldish Dell laptop through PCMCIA firewire card, here is 
lspci output:
04:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306 Fire II IEEE 1394 
OHCI Link Layer Controller (rev 46)

Another possibly related piece of information: I tried to use external channel 
changing probgram (6200ch). The vendor/device ids for my STB are not listed in 
6200ch source code, but once I added them by hand, I could switch channels. 
Yet the problem with live TV persisted.

I also have an external hard drive connected through the same firewire card 
but removing it does not make a difference.

Again, everything works smoothly with mythdora 12.23 but not with newer 
distributions.

Thanks,
Yuri

>>Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:14:01 +0100
>From: David Watkins <watkinshome at gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Live TV problem
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>> It was rather inconvenient and I remembered that I had no such problem in 
>my
>> original installation, so I tried a couple of clean installs and noticed 
>the
>> following:
>> Mythdora 12.13 with all the updates works.
>> If I upgrade it to Fedora 13 the problem comes back.
>> The problem exists on a clean Fedora 13 install.
>> The problem exists on a clean Mythbuntu 10.10 install.
>
>I'd have thought that there's a good chance that this is related to
>your capture device  -  so you should probably mention what it is.