I'm trying to get firewire to work with my HD cable box 3250HD, but everytime i try to run test-mpeg2 it gives me test-mpeg2.o no such file or directory. I've symlink all the other files it was complaining about but couldn't find this one. I also try to ./configure the source of libiec61883 but get erros about libraw not being => 1.2.0 even though i do have that. Anyone else have this problem. I just want to test it out.

I got it working. I had to apt-get install libiec61883-0 and -dev. Than i had to download the source and compile it. But i wasn't able to compile the source until i ran that apt-get install.

Now it works, but all HD-TV channels are either scrambled or they don't come in. Regular tv channels work, but HD abc, cbs, nbc and Fox are all scrambled. And the cable channels Discovery, TnT, and espn won't come through the firewire. Is it their legal right to scramble the broadcast HD? I mean what's the point. Can anyone tell me if they have TimeWarner, (i'm in NY near Albany) and if they can get the 1800's channels to come in at all?

NO!
FCC mandates that any broadcast HD must be retransmitted in the clear.

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What package server were you using? The one listed in the default config doesn't exist anymore....

Edit: I added the following to my /etc/apt/sources.list


Then I executed:


Then I moved the whole source folder to /usr/src/libiec61883

Now I am getting the following error when trying to run the command:



Any ideas?

Hey dardack, do you have "Watch Live TV" working with firewire on your mythtv? I've got the same box. I can record using test-mpeg2, and i can only play it back using mplayer -vo x11, and it would run pretty slow. using mplayer -vo xv would cause mplayer to crash. When i try to watch live tv, i get a blank screen and mythfrontend stops responding.

Yes, I have the same problem. You will probably find mythbackend has crashed and if you look in /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log that the last message will be something like
Generally speaking this should mean that there is a shared library that libiec61883.so depends on that is missing - but I have not worked out which one.
Okay - I tried putting
in my /etc/apt/sources.list and then:
apt-get install libiec61883-0
apt-get install libiec61883-dev
and this resolved my missing symbol problem.

However, I now, in /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log, have repeatedly
and then

Any ideas about this?

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