[olug] myth + COX firewire HD

[Kenny Kant]

  Well I can now report back that my Firewire setup seems to work with 
my Mythtv system.  I have my Cox digital box here in Omaha hooked 
directly to my Mythtv backend server and all seems well.  I am able to 
tune in most of the channels from Cox using the firewire connection and 
receive the full HD picture even the more "premium" channels such has 
HGTVHD, ESPNHD ...etc which is exciting.  I need to go through and 
remove some channels that I dont subscribe to like HBO ..etc but I was 
expecting to have to do that.  In addition I use a PVR-150 as a second 
tuner so I need to do some schedule lineup cleaning but that is more 
related to me learning to live with 2 tuners for the first time.

The setup of the firewire was not that bad.  I pulled a lot of 
information from:

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/FireWire


Mythbackend setup detected my Firewire connection.  I am using the 
Motorola DCX-3200M box from Cox with the speed set to 100 megabits and 
broadcast mode.  I also had to use the 6200ch external channel changing 
program and make sure that Myth used it for that device.  The newest 
6200ch code has support for the DCX-3200M box but I did have to get into 
the source and manually tell it which "node" my cable box was identified 
as on the bus before I compiled.


So anyway all there is HOPE for HD and Mythtv.  I will be testing over 
these next couple of weeks and reporting back.



Kenny




On 10/8/2010 4:17 AM, Will Langford wrote:
>> At the end of the day, my end objective is to have myth serving up my High
>> definition, recorded content to upnp media clients, ps3 for example as well
>> as other myth frontends. Finding torrents for my favorite shows is a real
>> pita lately, and I just want to automate my content recording and possibly
>> transcode out the commercials! and I'll be damned if I spend any money on a
>> news feed just to grab video!
>>
>>
> I'm really looking forward to knowing how the firewire works out.  I've been
> tempted to take the plunge but can't justify the time sink... glad someone
> else local is gonna try it out for me :).  Granted, I've grown very
> accustomed to multiple tuners, so... I'll end up paying a fair bit more for
> cable setup if firewire does indeed work.  2 Cox Box's rent a month, extra
> cost of digital cable, and then the $20 firewire card and a few TB of disk
> storage.... and possibly hardware upgrade depending on the load firewire
> puts on system.  I'm glad I went with a bigger sized HTPC case rather than a
> nifty little book-sized system.
>
> As far as the Hauppauge HDPVR, a coworker got one a few months back and
> recorded some PS3 game play to it.  Looked real nice :)
>
> Just for a har har har:
>
> Walmart, Best Buy, Amazon, and eBay have all of the torrents I want burnt to
> DVD already.  Really convenient to go and spend just a few min to pick out
> what I want and walk out the door with it in an already archived commercial
> free high quality format.... or have it waiting on my desk at work....
>
> Granted, there's the pesky chore of having to rip the DVD to store'em on the
> HD for ease of playback.... but for me, the time it takes to find what I'm
> looking for as well as download and verify and hope it's of good quality...
> not to mention possible legal repercussions ... it's just cheaper (in just
> pure time spent alone) to amazon/ebay/walmart it.  In the hour or two it
> takes to do all of that... your hourly wage surely covers the 'retail'
> cost... and I'd rather much do something more constructive / useful with my
> time than web crawl / verify :)
>
> Then again, I take the same approach to computers.  If I can spend $X and
> not have to fight with it for Y hours.... then... $X is cheaper than trying
> to hack it together.
>
> -Will
> _______________________________________________
> OLUG mailing list
> OLUG at olug.org
> https://lists.olug.org/mailman/listinfo/olug
>