[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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