i was a little bummed to find out that you couldn’t just update between the mythbuntu alphas… i finally got around to tossing the 8.04 beta on my mythtv frontend and firewire input/capture WORKS! i also moved the pvr500 into the t105 and got that working. the only issue i’m having right now is figuring out how to get the primary backend and secondary backend to play nicely.

i also figured out how to get nxclient to work in mythbuntu. i never did figure out how to get xfce to start properly (it wouldn’t start in a window and it would render xfce over my current window manager) so i cheated and just installed ‘ubuntu-desktop’. not gnome, or gnome-desktop…. heh, yeah i’m slow.

i finally gave up on getting the sa4250HDC to play nice with mythtv and traded it in for a sa3250HD. downgrading boxes i do lose hdmi out from the cable stb… but component works just fine. after connecting everything up, all i had to do was clear my inputs in mythtv and re-add them. firewire capture is working! muahaha!

changing channels via firewire is wonky, mythtv does change the channel of the stb but not properly. instead of hunting it down in mythbuntu 8.04 i’m going to re-install 7.10 and start clean from there. i think i’m also going to switch from the firefly remote to a mce remote for the time being too. i’m slowly gathering tons of hdtv/mythtv hardware.. atleast i don’t have to play with an ir blaster anymore.

hrm. still not getting any love with firewire capture in mythtv. mythbuntu autoconfigured everything for me but i’m still unable to access my sa 4250hdc. one issue was that my mythtv user wasn’t part of the ‘disk’ group, and w/out that i’m not going to be able to access /dev/raw1394.

unfortunantly i’m still going to have to figure out what’s up with my serial ir blaster…. i just saw this pop up in /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log after i restarted the backend :

2008-02-22 20:32:54.401 FireDev(001BD7B3BACC0000): The Scientific Atlanta 4250 HDC is not supported by any MythTV Firewire channel changer.At the moment you must use an IR blaster.
2008-02-22 20:32:54.410 SetLastChannel(2): cleared: no

boo! ignore the rambling after the fold…..

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