[mythtv-users] Hauppauge WINTV-PVR-500MCE

[Matt S.]

Myabe I'll get a 500 then.  That'd be great to have two additional
tuners.  I eventually plan on getting an air2pc card as well, so
that'll save a slot for that.  I've never had to do a kernel patch, so
I'm not sure if I'd have to do that or not for this to work.  Also, a
single 500 will work with 2 250s in the same backend in harmony?
Thanks again as always Jarod.

Thanks!
Matt


On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 11:24:36 -0800, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
> On Monday 07 March 2005 07:56, Matt S. wrote:
> > So, just to jump in here.  I currently have 2 PVR-250s.  I really need
> > at least 1 more source, and I don't know if it's best to invest in
> > another PVR-250, or a 150 or a 500.  It looks like the 500 (and 150)
> > are really still in development to the point that it wouldn't be a
> > simple plug and play.  Any advice?  The dual tuners on the 500 sounds
> > really desirable!  I run debian and a 3.x version of ivtv and 2.6.10
> > kernel.  I'll eventually add a HDTV card as well, so the extra PCI
> > slots are precious :)
> 
> Actually, I'd call the 500 extremely close to production-ready right now.
> There are a few of us who have been working on the 500 and 150 quite a bit of
> late on the ivtv-dev list, and we now have a patch in place so it loads on
> 4kstacks kernels (very relevant for FC2/3 users, not so much for other
> distros), tveeprom patches that auto-detect everything on these cards, and
> nearly full auto-configuration, so they're not far off from plug and play.
> The next ivtv dev release (0.3.2h) should include all these bits.
> 
> I'm moving my 150 into production use this week (in a FC3 box), while still
> testing some things on my 500 (which is currently in a Debian box w/a 2.6.11
> kernel + kraxel patches) with respect to the video4linux tveeprom and tuner.
> The ivtv-provided tveeprom and tuner modules work perfectly, but there are
> some slight differences between them and the v4l bytesex.org versions.
> 
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