Wierd - I have comcast with an HD set top box and
it *IS* a Motorola. I'll look up the model number
later....
emike
Michael Haan wrote:
I just called comcast and they're telling me they only have SA 2000,
2100, 2200 and 3200 - no Motorola. How did you get yours? Let me
also just vent, quickly. Yet another reason I hate the @#%&$*!!!
cable company - all they can do is make things difficult. Apparently
I can't even buy my own STB to use. Shocker.
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:56:18 -0500, Michael Haan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sounds great. I'm also running gentoo and installed myth by emerging
it. What does it mean to compile myth with firewire support - what do
I have to do? Also, I have comcast but they've given me a SA 2100 box
- can I just request one of these motorola dct6200's?
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:32:03 -0800, Michael Eldridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I picked up a Motorola DCT6200 digital cable box from Comcast. Connected it to my Myth
box via FireWire and it works great. By compiling 6200ch.c located in the
"contrib" directory Myth is able to change channels on the 6200. You of course
need to compile Myth with ieee1394 support which is dependent on several ieee1394
libraries. libraw1394 and libiec61883 are two libraries you need that I can think of off
the top of my head but there may be more. Anyone know any more? Also, you need ieee1394
support compiled into the kernel. Once I got all the libraries compiled and installed and
the kernel compiled with ieee1394 support it was a simple matter of plugging in the 6200.
Amazingly it just worked! Your milage will of course vary depending on which distro of
Linux you're running as to the ease of getting dependencies installed. I use Gentoo and
because of their Portage package manager found it fairly easy to get things compiled,
installed, configured, and running.
The nice thing I've found about running FireWire from the digital cable box is
that since there's no need for an analog to digital conversion the hit of the
CPU is very small. On the p3 733 I run Myth on capturing video uses roughly 3%
of the CPU. I assume the same is true for capture cards but having never used
one I can't say for sure.
I can run MythFrontend on Mac OS X and watch live or recorded TV over my
network as well as change channels by typing them on the keyboard. I also
created a Samba share for the directory Myth save the video to whick allows me
to copy recorded progams to other computers. Very slick.
Having just gotten my myth box running using analog cable and a pvr
350, I'd like to now bring my digital cable box into the fold. But, I
don't want to deal with lirc if at all possible. So I'm wondering
about the viability of using firewire. How easy is this and what's
the prognosis for supporting channel changing over firewire via myth
in the near future?
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