I just called comcast and they're telling me they only have SA 2000, 2100, 2200 and 3200 - no Motorola. How did you get yours? Let me also just vent, quickly. Yet another reason I hate the @#%&$*!!! cable company - all they can do is make things difficult. Apparently I can't even buy my own STB to use. Shocker.
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:56:18 -0500, Michael Haan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
