[olug] myth + COX firewire HD

[Dave Thacker]

On Monday, October 11, 2010 11:18:00 pm Kenny Kant 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
> 

Kenny, just for the record, could you give us the hardware stack on your Myth 
box?   Thanks for the info!   

Dave Thacker
 
> 
> 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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