Linux PVR

[D. Hageman]

I think part of the problem with your experience is that the WinTV GO 
cards don't usually use the driver that you specified.  The usually use 
either the cx88 driver or the ivtv driver.  In fact, most of the cards 
made by hauppauge use the ivtv driver.

Closed captioning is available by the latest ivtv drivers.  The problem is 
that the v4l specification was made without taking in account of some of 
the hardware that is available today (not to the fault of the original 
developers).  v4l2 is a work in progress to address some of these issues,
but still some issues remain.

I have built a PVR using a PVR-350 from hauppauge using mythtv on a Fedora 
Core 3 box  that I am quite happy with.  I don't feel like expouding on much
past that at this point unless someone has some more specific questions
(due to the plentiful resources elsewhere one can take advantage of).


On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Adrian Gordinier wrote:

> On Thursday 23 December 2004 12:22 pm, Brad wrote:
>> --
>>
>> I have a MythTV box about 90% functional.  I am just working through
>> getting the IR receiver and serial port control of my cable box going.
>> MyhtTV is a really nice setup.  I built it on Fedora Core 3 and followed
>> Jarod Wilson's guide at http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php.  Let me
>> know if you need more information.
>>
>> Brad
> -----------------------------------------------
>
> I too am using the same website guide but I picked up two WinTV Go Cards
> because everywhere I read it seemed like those were good ones to use but I
> can't get the tuners to work. They are using the bt878 chip. Anybody have any
> luck with them. If there is an easier card maybe I can ebay them. I had
> started out with one of the pvr's some new one pvr100 or pvr150 I got at
> Microcenter. It also had couldn't get the tuner to work and it also as i read
> wouldn't do closed captioning. I have had better luck on linux with my old
> ati all-in-wonder as far as tuners go but you can't use it with myth i
> believe.
>
> Adrian
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