I'm using 100MB/S I believe, is this an issue? I've got an Audigy 2
installed and am using that as the Firewire port with my STB. I have
not had any issues at al with Channel changing via firewire. -AJP<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/16/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steve Adeff</b> <<a href="mailto:adeffs@gmail.com">adeffs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Saturday 14 January 2006 20:23, Big Wave Dave wrote:<br>> Did you ever come up with any conclusions or suggestions on an
<br>> "optimal" configuration? Perhaps a recommended FireWire chipset?<br>><br>> Dave<br><br>As far as I can tell, the Via firewire chipsets are very hit or miss. some<br>people have had luck with them, some (like me) have had nothing but trouble
<br>with them. If I was to recommend, I'd say get a Texas Instruments, Lucent,<br>or Agere(sp?) chipset. I have an NEC on the board I ended up getting, which<br>so far has been great, so if you've got one, you should be ok. I've also
<br>talked to a couple folks with Sound Blaster Audigy's that have had excellent<br>results using the sound cards firewire, I think they may use TI or Lucent<br>chips on their boards.<br><br>I found that those who compiled their firewire library's seem to do better
<br>than those that used precompiled packages. Though this may be coincidence, so<br>if your distribution has the required library's as packages, try them before<br>compiling your own.<br><br>But, I did spend some time analyzing how my setup worked and had an idea, and
<br>I talked to a couple dev's about it. One suggested I try something before<br>trying my idea. Apparently a few months back this came up on the list and an<br>idea came up....<br><br>What he suggested was to set the firewire cable box to use broadcast in
<br>mythtv-setup, even if p2p is the only settings that "sticks" when using<br>plugctl. (so get the port and node right, set it to broadcast, 400MB/S).<br><br>First, if you have any automated scripts to run plugctl to change settings,
<br>disable them, we don't want to change the "natural" state of the firewire bus<br>for this experiement.<br><br>So, shut down the mythbox, unplug the cable box power, and then turn on the<br>mythbox followed by the cable box. This should reset the firewire bus at both
<br>ends. I did this last thursday but have been gone all weekend. From the point<br>I did it till I left I never missed a recording, data streamed every time.<br>But I got some missed channel changes. I need to check now to see how it did
<br>over the weekend.<br><br>Give this a try. Let me know if you notice any change in the bahviour of your<br>setup.<br><br>--<br>Steve<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">
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