MythTV/Comcast going all digital TV in Cambridge [OT]

[jabr-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (John Abreau)]

Why not just set up a separate backend server for each firewire connection?
It's what I assumed he was doing, until you suggested otherwise.



On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Jarod Wilson<jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Jun 30, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>
>> Dan Ritter <dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org> writes:
>>
>>> I'm having immense difficulties getting *two* FW STBs to work,
>>> though.
>>
>> Same here.. ?It works MOST of the time, but if one show starts while
>> another is already recoding I can get dropouts.
>>
>> Unfortunately none of the myth devs seem to care, probably because
>> none of them use it this way so they don't see it themselves.
>
> I'd be willing to take a crack at it, if I actually had multiple
> firewire settop boxes and the time to work on it... :(
>
> Sadly, the vast majority of mythtv devs are pretty busy with !mythtv
> these days, about the only thing getting a lot of love is vdpau
> support. We're going on over a year since the last release, and
> looking at 0.22 no sooner than ~3 months out still...
>
>> Also,
>> the fact that it only happens periodically doesn't help; I can't give
>> a reliable way to reproduce it.
>
> Yeah, that doesn't help either.
>
>> My plan is to just get another box as a frontend/backend for my guest
>> room and just move one of my HD boxes from my basement to there, so
>> I'll
>> only have 1 cable box per machine.
>
> Just had another thought... If its bus resets that cause the hiccups,
> putting each cable box on its own FireWire card should also eliminate
> the problem, as they'd be on busses isolated from one another.
> Assuming of course that you have the ability to put another FireWire
> card in the current system... And also assuming the mythtv code is
> bright enough to only issue bus resets on the bus a specific box is
> hooked to... Man, I really need to spend some more time looking at
> that code...
>
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