Pinnacle PCTV HD Card (800i)
From MythTV
Working for MythTV 0.20.2, but drivers are currently available for it only from LinuxTV (see below for driver detail). According to LinuxTV, the drivers are likely to be officially included in the 2.6.25 kernel.
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Overview/Features
A hybrid device that supports analog, ATSC (8-VSB) and digital cable (QAM) TV sources. The card also supports analog A/V inputs, and has an IR remote control input as well as FM radio. (Unknown at this time if the FM Radio works under Linux). The XC5000 tuner on this card is able to pick up considerably more over-the-air digital channels than most other cards.
This card has been found at Best Buy and Circuit City, as well as woot.
This card uses a Conexant CX23883-39 chip.
Making it Work
Firmware
You MUST have the firmware for the XC5000 tuner installed for the 800i to function properly. The firmware can be obtained by extracting it from the Windows' driver file; both an extracting script and and the Windows driver file are available here. After you have recovered the firmware file, place a copy of it in your /lib/firmware directory. (This directory may differ with some distros; consult your distro's documentation for the appropriate location).
Drivers
Full support for the device is now in the LinuxTV mainline v4l-dvb repo. Both analog and digital TV are supported, and the remote control should also function properly.
To download the latest v4l-dvb tree, simply select the bz2 or gz link on the top left of the page, then build them via running "make" followed by "make install" ("sudo make install" if you are not logged in as root). More thorough downloading/building instructions can be found here.
Remote Control Support
The card uses the CX2388x's standard IR interface, and, it is fully supported now via the linux input layer. You may use LIRC with the input device driver option. See the Remote Controllers page for more details on how to configure LIRC with remote controls that use the linux input layer.
External Links
--Curryrice71 22:41, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
Possible Conflicts
After compiling and installing the v4l-dvd libraries to support the 800i my dual tuner PVR-500 was unable to be probed by MythTV and I lost sound during playback in the frontend of the machine where the libraries were installed. All other frontends were fine. I did gain backend support for the 800i as well as the pchd-5500 card also installed in the box. This frontend/backend machine is running Mythbuntu 7.10.
