Hauppauge PVR-150
| Capture Card Information | |
| Vendors Website | unknown |
| Input Formats | not applicable |
| Support Status | unknown |
| Driver | unknown |
| Sound Driver | not applicable |
| Chipset | not applicable |
Contents
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
Usually found upon install.
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
