[mythtv-users] Arris DCX3200M-P3 and firewire on Shaw

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

On 12/10/15 17:08, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> The Arris DCX3200M-P3 I got from Shaw seems to have its firewire ports enabled, from the box's diagnostics, and the fact that I can use the 6200ch channel-changer (with mods) and test-mpeg2 captures content.
> 
> Is this enough of a test to suggest Myth can record from this box over firewire?
> 
> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/6200ch says I should update firewiredevice.cpp and I've had at look at it and it does seem to need updating in a couple spots to recognize the box.
> 
> This leads me to believe that I can't use firewire recording without patches.
> 
> I'm on Fedora 22, using Myth 0.27.4 from RPMFusion. Do I have to wait for patches to percolate up to RPMFusion or is there a way I can patch and compile the parts I need? Or should I bite the bullet and move away from RPMs to compiling Myth myself?  
> 

I've pushed a change to master to hopefully support
this device. Is anyone running master that can test
this before I back port it to 0.27 ??

Please report success / failure / missing id's to

https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/12524


Regards
Stuart