[mythtv-users] Tuner Card. Hauppauge PVR-500

cythrault at gmail.com cythrault at gmail.com
Thu Jun 23 12:32:51 UTC 2005


On 6/23/05, Anders Christensen <ac at itpartner.nu> wrote:
>  
> I am planing to buy a Hauppauge PVR-500 tuner card. 
>   
> It is a dual tuner card, that I am hoping that MythTV will support. 
>   
> The card is sold under the name "WinTV-PVR-500MCE" where MCE is Media Center
> Edition from Microsoft, which I might swith to, if MythTV isnt working
> perfectly. 
> Anyone got some information about this ? 

I bought mine on ebay. I was a bit afraid that I'd run into trouble to
set it up as it reported but for me it was a real plug n' play
experience. I used Axel's binary ivtv drivers for FC3 but I compile
MythTV from the CVS.

This card reports itself as a pair of PVR-150 on a single PCI card:

02:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16
(CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.: Unknown device e807
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 12
        Memory at d4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

02:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16
(CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.: Unknown device e817
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
        Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

Here's the RPMs I use:

# rpm -qa|grep ivtv
ivtv-firmware-enc-2.04.024-4.at
ivtv-0.3.5l-92.rhfc3.at
ivtv-firmware-dec-2.02.023-4.at
perl-Video-ivtv-0.13-7.rhfc3.at
ivtv-firmware-audio-0.0.1-1.at
ivtv-kmdl-2.6.10-1.770_14.rhfc3.at-0.3.5l-92.rhfc3.at

modprobe.conf:

# ivtv (PVR-500MCE)
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
alias char-major-81-1 ivtv
alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv
alias tuner tuner-ivtv
alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtv
options cx25840 no_black_magic=1

Now, I just need to get cable to record from it. ;)

-- 
cyth


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