[mythtv-users] Setting up/testing Hauppauge HVR-1100 composite/s-video input?

John Pilkington J.Pilk at tesco.net
Mon Jan 20 13:37:16 UTC 2014


On 20/01/14 13:23, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 1/20/2014 7:56 AM, BIRD Neil wrote:
>> a) Will MythTV actually be able to use this raw video input?  And a
>> follow up: what, then, will it save on disc - will it do runtime MPEG
>> compression or will I have to transcode it (preventing its use for
>> LiveTV/immediate time-shifting?
>
> MythTV can use it, but it will produce either RTJPEG or MPEG4ASP inside
> a Nuppelvideo container, which if you ever want to use the file outside
> of MythTV, is not something you want to have to deal with.  Since it's
> not giving you a nice, clean MPEG2 stream, it's going to be a lot more
> hassle to configure in MythTV
>
>> b) Any idea how I can actually test the thing before I go the whole
>> hog in setting up Myth on this new PC?  Would something like “cheese”
>> work with it?  Or is there a way of telling mplayer the format of the
>> data?
>
> Try 'tvtime'.

I have one of these but I don't remember using the analog input - I 
think early on it didn't work, and later I didn't need it.

   8.939226] saa7133[0]: subsystem: 0070:6700, board: Hauppauge 
WinTV-HVR1110 DVB-T/Hybrid [card=104,autodetected]
[    8.939245] saa7133[0]: board init: gpio is 400000

This might help, although mine reports as saa7133.
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Saa713x_devices:_Generic_SAA7134_Card_Installation






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