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== FAQs ==
 
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Revision as of 20:25, 17 April 2007

PVR-150 MCE version
Hauppage PVR-150
Vendors Website http://hauppage.com/pages/products/data_pvr150mce.html
Input Formats not applicable
Support Status Supported. VBI data is supported in newer versions of the IVTV driver. Works fine even on Athlon64.
Driver IvTV 0.4.0 or newer. ** 0.4.2 is required if you have a Samsung tuner **
Sound Driver not needed. The hardware MPEG encoder will multiplex the audio with the video stream.
Chipset Connexant cx2341x


Description

The Newest version of HAUPPAUGE PVR-150 popular Video capture card. Derived from the PVR-250, but with cheaper design (Hauppauge's own statement)

The PVR-150 is considered to be a highly stable, easy to work with analog video capture card with a built-in MPEG-2 encoder. The ease of setup and overall quality has made it one of the community's favorite cards to use in standard definition backends

IVTV

The driver for the Hauppauge PVR-150 is the excellent IVTV driver, which has an excellent Wiki. They have all the links you need to download the drivers and firmware and an excellent HOWTO for installing everything for various distributions.

The issues existing with the PVR-150's lack of VBI/Closed_captioning support happens to be with varying versions of the IVTV driver. Certain versions of the driver allow the PVR-150 to produce usable VBI data.

Issues and Problems

  • Does not produce VBI/Closed-Captioning data. See IVTV.
  • Hauppauge substituting HVR-1600s for PVR-150s. Current PVR-150 boxes actually contain HVR-1600s. Included is a note that says, "We have had a shortage of the WinTV-PVR-150 boards during the holiday season. Therefore, in place of the WinTV-PVR-150, we are including out new WinTV-HVR-1600" It seems the HVR-1600 is NOT supported by IVTV.

Associated Software

PVR150 Remote - setting up lirc for the PVR-150

At least some models of the PVR 150 can send IR, not just receive it. This functionality is often call IR Blasting. It is useful for controlling external tuners. LIRC PVR-150 IR blaster support, version 3 describes how to set this up using a patched version of LIRC.

Log Messages

If you see an "Unreasonably low latency" message from ivtv in your logs you should probably read the page on PCI Latency

Installation guides

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0

See Installing MythTV on Debian Etch.

openSUSE 10.2

See openSUSE 10.2

FAQs

Best info most likely found on the IVTV driver forum on Sourceforge. See also the wiki at: http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-index.php