Firewire channel changing

[gjvrieze]

Who on here is using firewire to change channels, and how are you doing it?

[Opus4]

There is a whole topic about firewire: STB Firewire (IEEE-1394) Support, covering both firewire recording and channel changing. Towards the end, there are several posts about just changing channels & the download's Guide section has a document about firewire channel changing. I mentioned my results here.

- Andy

[gjvrieze]

Originally Posted by Opus4

There is a whole topic about firewire: STB Firewire (IEEE-1394) Support, covering both firewire recording and channel changing. Towards the end, there are several posts about just changing channels & the download's Guide section has a document about firewire channel changing. I mentioned my results here.

- Andy

Thanks, your post was everything that I wanted to read

[dlandrum]

I just migrated to a new server from XP to Windows Server 2003.

Here are a few notes different than the guides for XP.

1) install the msi fro Timmmore before you plug-in a cable box
2) optional: reboot
3) plug-in the cable box and navigate the popups; I had 3 devices from this event: panel, tuner, unknown. I disabled the 'unknown'.
4) see Computer Management -> Device Manager -> Imaging Devices; you need both the tuner and the panel to be working; mine worked immediatly
5) The mstape.sys file for my Windows Server 2003 R2 SP1 did not match at 130 in the hex editor; I kept the drivers from the Timmmore install .... so I did not create a mstapeo.sys
6) I did a channel change test using channel.exe and channelw.exe without issue.

search: firewire channel change windows server 2003

[mayamaniac]

Originally Posted by mattdcknsn

After banging my head against the wall for an hour I remembered I had an old FW card from when I tested capturing FW output. So I hooked that up and got it working in 30 minutes.

Are you saying you got channel changing to work through firewire? If so, please explain how to set that up, thanks.

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