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

[Jarod Wilson]

On Jun 30, 2009, at 12:48 PM, John Abreau wrote:

> 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.

I believe separate backend machines is indeed what Derek is doing as a  
way to remedy the problem. That should work too, but it requires  
running an additional machine, so I was thinking out loud about a  
single-machine remedy (barring a proper fix in the mythtv code).



> 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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