I'm trying to debug my DCT-6200 to firewire to Dragon 2.0 connection, and am finding numerous threads which recommend test-mpeg2 as the best way to find out if the STB is actually streaming the video.

Is it part of the MythTv release (I believe I have the latest as of 12-01-2007)?

Do I need to find the source code and compile it?

Yes, I posted a script to do this at one time but I was not able to find that posting. So, here you go:
It would be test to run this using sudo or as superuser.

Thanks. I got it working.

No good results with my STB yet.

I'm still trying to get Comcast to give me a STB that has Firewire working reliably.
I waited around for 3 hours Saturday to get another box(#3), but it was not even a 6200.


If I run test-mpeg2 successfully, ( it creates a non-zero length file), I might get lucky and get a program to record from the schedule. I has worked 2 times.

Another thing I have noticed is that the output file from test-mpeg2 has to be deleted if it gets too big.

If I leave the file in my home directory, GWM refuses to let me log in because it can't write some file because my account has a file capacity limit. I'm the only user and I don't have enough capacity. I have to log in as root, delete the file, then I can log in as myself.

Any clue how to raise my file limit?

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Source 1: QAM_256
Source 2: Firewire

I typically do these types of experiments in /myth/tmp so I have plenty of space and the system won't get upset.

I believe your implicit question is "Why doesn't it record anything most of the time?" There can be a lot of reasons for this -- one I can think of is if you attempt to record a channel that is either encrypted OR a show on a channel that has the copy control indicator set, your 6200 will be left in a state where it cannot record anything else until it is reset. This this thread

I assume you are using something like "firewire_tester -B -n 0 -P 0 -v" to reset your firewire channel.

Marc