Firewire Recording
Submitted by jamoody on May 18, 2009 - 1:29pm
I'm pursuing setting up set top box Motorola DCT-6200 and have some basic questions:
* Does MD5 (or MD10.21) have firewire support built in, or do I need to follow all the instructions in http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/FireWire? At a quick check lsmod|grep 1394 does not show the dependencies installed but don't know if I can simply turn them on within MD5.
* Do I need a firewire tuner card or can I accept firewire TV programming via my motherboard firewire port?
* Assuming I need a firewire tuner card does anyone have a recommendation? The list at http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/FireWire seems old.
Thanks.
Firewire Recording
I may have jumped the gun on the solution to my problem. Here's what I want to do: Record clear QAM signals after they are decrypted by a set top box (STB) - cable channels such as ESPN-HD, etc. I can currently record clear QAM signals (ABC-HD, FOX-HD, etc) directly from the wall via an HD tuner card. The firewire solution assumes that the STB first decrypt the signal before sending it down the firewire but I have no idea if that is true. I'm fairly sure I can IR blast the STB (http://www.commandir.com/content/view/32/48/) and record via coax out from the STB, but I prefer the firewire solution if possible (no need for the IR blaster).
Cable company (COMCAST) claims HDCP copy protection is enabled if that matters.
Suggestions?
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Firewire Recording
Anybody have any input here?
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Quote: Does MD5 (or
Does MD5 (or MD10.21) have firewire support built in
10.21 works fine.
http://www.mythdora.com/?q=node/4349
http://www.mythdora.com/?q=node/4315
Do I need a firewire tuner card or can I accept firewire TV programming via my motherboard firewire port?
Your firewire should work fine unless your using an Nvidia board mentioned in the post.
The firewire solution assumes that the STB first decrypt the signal before sending it down the firewire but I have no idea if that is true.
That is true. The STB will decrypt the signal then out the firewire post on the STB to your firewire port on motherboard.
but I prefer the firewire solution if possible (no need for the IR blaster)
That is also true. Channel changing is built in with firewire.
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Dennis
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Dennis
Thanks, that's the
Thanks, that's the confirmation I needed. Looks like it's time to get a STB box (Motorola DCT6200), updated to MD 10.21 (currently on MD5) and give it a try.
lspci is reporting Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) on my Intel motherboard so I should be set there.
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