[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #5443: HD-PVR support

Steve Heistand steve at heistand.org
Tue Jul 1 04:15:20 UTC 2008


mine was also sent back, not sure what version the new one came
back with but it works just fine.
I wasnt about to plug it into a windows machine in case it
did try to load firemware. so Im not sure which one it has
nor sure how to check under linux.


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Steve Heistand
steve at heistand.org


---------- Original Message -----------
From: "John P Poet" <jppoet at gmail.com>
To: "Development of mythtv" <mythtv-dev at mythtv.org>
Sent: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:01:57 -0600
Subject: Re: [mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #5443: HD-PVR support

> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 9:30 PM, Michael Rice <mikerice1969 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:44 PM, MythTV <mythtv at cvs.mythtv.org> wrote:
> >
> >>  Note: You will need the latest HD-PVR driver from Janne's hg, and the 1.0
> >>  firmware (i.e. not 1.0b or any other firmware).
> >
> > I had the linux driver working on my original HD-PVR but had to send it
> > back.  When the new one came it had a 1.0b disk which I installed on
> > Windows and it seems to work.
> >
> > But I didn't see the warning about 1.0b until after it was installed.
> > I reinstalled
> > the old driver 1.0... will that get me back to the 1.0 firmware?
> >
> > I tried that but now a:
> >
> > cat /dev/video0 > foo.ts
> >
> > produces only an empty file.  setting hdpvr_debug 1 shows it calling
> > start_streaming but nothing after that.  Ctl-c shows calls stop_streaming...
> > Unplugging/replugging behaves but no data in the file.  Anyone have any
> > ideas?
> 
> If you have one of the "new" HD-PVRs, you must use firmware 1.0B.
> 
> The warning you quoted was basically because 1.0B has not been well
> tested.  It should work, however.
> 
> John
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