Sounds great. I'm also running gentoo and installed myth by emerging it. What does it mean to compile myth with firewire support - what do I have to do? Also, I have comcast but they've given me a SA 2100 box - can I just request one of these motorola dct6200's?
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:32:03 -0800, Michael Eldridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I picked up a Motorola DCT6200 digital cable box from Comcast. Connected it > to my Myth box via FireWire and it works great. By compiling 6200ch.c located > in the "contrib" directory Myth is able to change channels on the 6200. You > of course need to compile Myth with ieee1394 support which is dependent on > several ieee1394 libraries. libraw1394 and libiec61883 are two libraries you > need that I can think of off the top of my head but there may be more. Anyone > know any more? Also, you need ieee1394 support compiled into the kernel. Once > I got all the libraries compiled and installed and the kernel compiled with > ieee1394 support it was a simple matter of plugging in the 6200. Amazingly it > just worked! Your milage will of course vary depending on which distro of > Linux you're running as to the ease of getting dependencies installed. I use > Gentoo and because of their Portage package manager found it fairly easy to > get things compiled, installed, configured, and running. > > The nice thing I've found about running FireWire from the digital cable box > is that since there's no need for an analog to digital conversion the hit of > the CPU is very small. On the p3 733 I run Myth on capturing video uses > roughly 3% of the CPU. I assume the same is true for capture cards but having > never used one I can't say for sure. > > I can run MythFrontend on Mac OS X and watch live or recorded TV over my > network as well as change channels by typing them on the keyboard. I also > created a Samba share for the directory Myth save the video to whick allows > me to copy recorded progams to other computers. Very slick. > > >Having just gotten my myth box running using analog cable and a pvr > >350, I'd like to now bring my digital cable box into the fold. But, I > >don't want to deal with lirc if at all possible. So I'm wondering > >about the viability of using firewire. How easy is this and what's > >the prognosis for supporting channel changing over firewire via myth > >in the near future? > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
