On Oct 12, 2005, at 11:04 PM, Donald Oakes wrote:
Curtis Stanford wrote:
On Oct 12, 2005, at 2:35 PM, Todd Greene wrote:
For what its worth, I use the DCT-6200 and Firewire reliably.
However, I can't give you my system specifics, since my root
partition of my HD crashed yesterday, and I can't boot the
system. However, it took a while to get it to work right, and
each system reboot (which thankfully wasn't often) required a
manual process. I was using the firewire port built-in to the
Foxconn motherboard.
(1) Run plugreport: . Each time I rebooted, the DCT would show
up either in node 0 or node 1 (often changing per reboot). So,
for each reboot, I would have to re-run mythtvsetup and change
the DCT-6200 node if it had changed. There seemed to be no
rhyme or reason as to why it keeps changing nodes on reboots.
(2) Get test-mpeg2 to work: On each reboot, I would need to run
"test-mpeg2 -r [NODE#]" mutiple times (This step is KEY!!) until
I get some output. You'll know when you get output, its
basically a stream of binary junk to stdout. If you don't see
output after 1 second, press ctrl-c and try again. With 10
tries, you'll get it to work.
(3) Now start mythbackend, and it should work "reliably" until
the next reboot.
Hope this is helpful. Once I rebuilt my machine with a new HD,
I'll be happy to answer specific config questions...
-- Todd
Yes, I do all of these things as well. However, it doesn't work
reliably for me even after these steps. Thanks Todd
Curtis
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I have the same difficulty as you, Curtis. I've even written a
program to automatically run test-mpeg2 until success each time the
channel is changed. Recording is still about 50% reliable via
firewire.
- Donald
So what's the difference between us and the people who seem to have
it working 100% ? I'm still thinking it may be the card or perhaps
the linux driver. I'm hoping anyone who is having success with this
mail in with their configurations.
Curtis
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