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| − | {{warning box|The Hauppauge PVR-350 mpeg2 hardware decoder (playback) is no longer supported since version 0.23 ( see http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/22845 ). With MythTV 0.23 and later, the ivtv Xorg/Xv driver is required for TV output using this card.}}
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| − | == Description ==
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| − | [[Image:pvr350.jpg|thumb|The PVR-350]]
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| − | The Hauppauge PVR-350 is a [[video capture card]] manufactured by [http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr350.html Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc]. It is supported by MythTV using the [http://ivtvdriver.org/ ivtv] driver.
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| − | Hauppauge no longer ships any of the analog only (PVR) cards due to pressure from FCC.
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| − | == What it Does & Doesn't Do ==
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| − | === Does ===
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| − | * Recording direct to MPEG2, just like [[Hauppauge PVR-150|PVR-150]], [[Hauppauge PVR-250|PVR-250]] and [[Hauppauge PVR-500|PVR-500]]
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| − | * Built-in RC5 remote control, supported by [[LIRC]].
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| − | * Technically X and xv output are working, but they are slow since they operate over the framebuffer.
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| − | === Doesn't===
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| − | * TV Output via MythTV
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| − | * Normal X output at decent speed/quality.
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| − | * OpenGL and hardware accelerated output is not supported.
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| − | * High-Definition (HD) output
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| − | * No audio output from anything but MPEG2 - requires pass-through cable to line-in on sound card for other audio output
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| − | '''Well Suited for:''' a single-card solution for input/ouput of video and audio to a standard television, running only MythTV and recordings. Also well-suited for underpowered systems, since the onboard mpeg encoding ''and'' decoding mean your CPU has very little to do. As a single data point, consider that the utilization on 750 Mhz PIII is only 20% while watching live tv.
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| − | '''Not Suited for:''' MythVideo, [[MythMusic]], MythGame, other output modes, recordings other than MPEG2
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| − | == Associated Software ==
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| − | * [[IVTV]]
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| − | * [[ir-kbd-i2c]] - kernel module for infrared remote control support
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| − | == Installation guides ==
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| − | This card should be set up as an "IVTV MPEG-2 encoder card"
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| − | == FAQs ==
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| − | Best info most likely found on the IVTV driver forum on Sourceforge.
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| − | See also the wiki at: http://ivtvdriver.org/
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| − | === How do you send TV-Out audio to the sound card? ===
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| − | Take the L/R audio out and feed it into a L/R female RCA to 1/8 male adapter. Plug this into the line input of your sound card and make sure mute is off.
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| − | === Displaying X on the PVR-350 video output ===
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| − | '''Q:''' How do you resize the MythTV UI and playback overlay to fit the TV screen when displaying X on the PVR-350 video output?
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| − | '''A:'''
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| − | This is one approach, based on a MythTV install created using Jarod's guide [http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php]. It does '''not''' currently resolve the more general problem of the whole X session fitting the TV screen. (''See also '''A2''' below'')
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| − | # Fire up kcontrol:
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| − | ## Go to '''Desktop->Panels->Hiding'''
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| − | ## Set "Hide Mode" to "Allow other windows to cover the panel"
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| − | # In mythfrontend, go to '''Utilities/Setup -> Setup -> Appearance''':
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| − | ## Go Next to the second screen, "Screen settings"
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| − | ## Check off the "Run the frontend in a window" box
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| − | ##* '''Note:''' this step may not be necessary if you are using a different window manager, such as [http://ratpoison.sourceforge.net/ ratpoison]. I found it necessary for KDE, so that step '''2.1.9.''' would reposition the GUI properly.
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| − | ## Make sure "Use GUI size for TV playback is NOT checked
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| − | ## Restart the mythfrontend (if you are set up for autologin, ''Ctrl+Alt+Backspace'' will restart the X server and log you back into your mythtv frontend user+session)
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| − | ## Return to the screen in '''2.1.1.'''
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| − | ## Play with the GUI width, height, X offset and Y offset until you can just barely see the lower resizing corners and edge of the upper window box.
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| − | ## ''(optional)'' Enlarge the width and height by one step (adds 8 to each count)
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| − | ## ''(optional)'' Decrease the X and Y offsets by 4 to re-centre.
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| − | ## The final settings for the NTSC TV used to write this walk-through were as follows:
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| − | ##* '''GUI width (px):''' 616
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| − | ##* '''GUI height (px):''' 456
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| − | ##* '''GUI X offset:''' 46
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| − | ##* '''GUI Y offset:''' 4
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| − | ## The final settings for the PAL TV 4/3 used to write this walk-through were as follows:
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| − | ##* '''GUI width (px):''' 632
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| − | ##* '''GUI height (px):''' 544
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| − | ##* '''GUI X offset:''' 55
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| − | ##* '''GUI Y offset:''' 20
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| − | # In mythfrontend, go to '''Utilities/Setup -> Setup -> TV Settings -> Playback''':
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| − | ## On the 5th screen, "Hardware Decoding Settings", make sure "Use the PVR-350's TV out/ MPEG decoder" is checked.
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| − | ## On the 8th screen, "Overscan", adjust the over/underscan percentages to your liking. This will resize the overlay when you're watching TV or playing back video.
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| − | ##* '''Vertical over/underscan percentage:''' 8
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| − | ##* '''Horizontal over/underscan percentage:''' 8
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| − | '''A2:''' This is another solution used to configure the port to operate. There are some [http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-index.php?page=TvOutHowto test you should conduct first] to make sure the card is talking to the TV correctly. If that checks out, proceed to follow that HOWTO. However, the section detailing '''fbdev''' will probably cause X-windows to crash, so don't follow that part of the HOWTO.
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| − | * Add a boot script to execute:
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| − | #!/bin/sh
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| − | modprobe ivtv-fb
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| − | Adding this to /etc/modules may interrupt ivtv from properly loading firmware. So make sure this boot script executes '''AFTER''' ivtv has loaded.
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| − | * It requires installing another X module called ivtvdev.
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| − | *# You need to [http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Download#X_Driver download the ivtvdev X driver]
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| − | *# Unpack it with bunzip2
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| − | *# Locate fbdev_drv.o
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| − | *# Copy it into the same directory that '''fbdev_drv.'''o is located in.
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| − | *# Restart X-windows (assuming you already loaded ivtv-fb earlier).
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| − | NOTE: '''fbdev''' does NOT work!!! I found many sites a la Google that had all the correct X-windows settings, but they were about 2 years old, and they caused bad errors. The following settings should work pretty well:
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| − | * Configure X-windows (Xorg or XFree86) to have a "device" for X to get displayed on.
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| − | <pre><nowiki>
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| − | Section "Device"
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| − | Identifier "Hauppauge PVR 350 Framebuffer"
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| − | Driver "ivtvdev"
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| − | Option "ivtv" "/dev/fb2" <--- dmesg | grep ivtv, and look for an fb device, and plug this in
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| − | Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
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| − | Option "XVideo" "1"
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| − | BusID "PCI:0:10:0" <--- lspci, and look for the PVR card's PCI designator (not nVidia's)
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| − | Screen 0
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| − | EndSection
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| − | </nowiki></pre>
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| − | * Configure X-windows to have a screen using the Hauppauge device.
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| − | <pre><nowiki>
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| − | Section "Screen"
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| − | Identifier "TV"
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| − | Device "Hauppauge PVR 350 Framebuffer"
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| − | Monitor "NTSC Monitor"
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| − | DefaultDepth 24
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| − | DefaultFbbpp 32
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| − | Subsection "Display"
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| − | Depth 24
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| − | FbBpp 32
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| − | Modes "720x480"
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| − | EndSubsection
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| − | EndSection
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| − | </nowiki></pre>
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| − | * Configure X-windows to have a monitor for your TV set.
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| − | <pre><nowiki>
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| − | Section "Monitor"
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| − | Identifier "NTSC Monitor"
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| − | HorizSync 30-68
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| − | VertRefresh 50-120
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| − | DisplaySize 183 122
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| − | Mode "720x480"
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| − | # D: 34.563 MHz, H: 37.244 kHz, V: 73.897 Hz
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| − | DotClock 34.564
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| − | HTimings 720 752 840 928
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| − | VTimings 480 484 488 504
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| − | Flags "-HSync" "-VSync"
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| − | EndMode
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| − | EndSection
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| − | </nowiki></pre>
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| − | * Configure X-windows the ServerLayout section to reference your TV screen.
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| − | * See also: [http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/XV_on_PVR-350 XV on PVR-350].
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| − | * See also: [https://scifi.homelinux.net/mediawiki/index.php/MythTV#July_29.2C_2006_-_MLUG_install_party MythTV - July 29, 2006 - MLUG install party]
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| − | ===Playback Freezes===
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| − | (Taken from: [http://malformed.org/2006/01/31/new-ivtv-error-from-mythtv-ivtv0-all-encoder-mpeg-stream-buffers-are-full-dropping-data/])
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| − | You can increase the IVTV buffers by adding the following line to /etc/mythtv/modules/ivtv:
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| − | options ivtv yuv_buffers=32 mpg_buffers=16 vbi_buffers=16 pcm_buffers=16 dec_osd_buffers=2
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| − | those are the maximum amounts for all those buffers.
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| − | UPDATED ON 1/30/08: I was trying to add more buffer space on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn and ivtv 0.10.1 but the above parameters weren't working. After being told to run "modinfo ivtv", I was able to find out that the parameters (options) are now different. This is the line that I added to my /etc/modprobe.conf file options ivtv enc_yuv_buffers=32 enc_mpg_buffers=16 enc_vbi_buffers=16 enc_pcm_buffers=16.
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| − | '''BE CAREFUL''' to note the units for each buffer sizing... My ''modinfo ivtv'' states that enc_pcm_buffers is in kB with a default of 320 so 16, as mentioned above, is very low.
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| − | here is another sample
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| − | options ivtv enc_mpg_buffers=16 enc_yuv_buffers=20 enc_pcm_buffers=640 debug=3
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| − | then run:
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| − | update-modules && rmmod ivtv && modprobe ivtv
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| − | If it works, instead of seeing:
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| − | ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB total)
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| − | you should see:
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| − | ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 512 x 32768 buffers (16384KB total)
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| − | ===Recordings Won't Schedule / Live TV won't play===
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| − | If you can configure the PVR-350 from [[mythtv-setup]] but you can't seem to get recordings to schedule (or watch live TV), you may not have the proper drivers loaded. See [[Troubleshooting:mythbackend:_Problem_with_capture_cards:_Card_1failed_init]]
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| − | == References ==
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| − | # Here is a QuickRef Remote Guide: [[PVR-350 Remote Quick Guide]]
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| − | # [[XV on PVR-350]]
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| − | # [[IVTV Install]]
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| − | # [http://www.gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_X_windows_through_Hauppauge_350_TV_Out Gentoo:HOWTO X windows through Hauppauge 350 TV Out]
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| − | # More information about Hauppauge can be found at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauppauge_Computer_Works Wikipedia]
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| − | [[Category:Hauppauge]]
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