[olug] myth + COX firewire HD
Brian Roberson
roberson at bstc.net
Wed Oct 13 22:39:03 UTC 2010
Ok... Now I'm stoked!
Thanks for the details... I'll be poking on this over the near term!!
On Oct 12, 2010, at 6:38 PM, Kenny Kant <kenny.kant at running-config.com> wrote:
> I should also note that the firewire port working may not be by default. I did have one support call early on because I could not use the firewire test program successfully. It did not magically turn after the call however when I tried a week later it worked. I wrote it off as wierd reboot sequence foo... but there were support calls made were I specifically asked about the firewire port. Cox responded by saying that they dont "support" the port but it was enabled.
>
> Kenny
>
>
> On 10/12/2010 8:28 AM, Dan Linder wrote:
>> Hey, congrats on the setup. Looks like either I had a bad DVR box, or Cox has fixed/updated their systems to permit firewire.
>>
>> Dan
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 23:18, Kenny Kant <kenny.kant at running-config.com <mailto:kenny.kant at running-config.com>> wrote:
>>
>> 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
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