Revision as of 04:13, 25 January 2006

The primary goal of the IvyTV Project is to create a kernel driver for the iTVC15 family of MPEG codecs. The iTVC15 family includes the iTVC15 (CX24315) and iTVC16 (CX24316). These chips are commonly found on Hauppauge's WinTV PVR-250 and PVR-350 TV capture cards.

The primary resource for IvyTV support should be the IvyTV Homepage which provides their own wiki, a faq Id=1 FAQ, a Mailing List, and Forums supported by theWinTV PVR & MediaMVP Board

There is a 2.6 port at http://membres.lycos.fr/badzzzz/ (the badzzz driver).

You can find the latest stable (0.2) and development (0.3) versions of Chris Kennedy's IVTV kernel module at http://www.ivtv.tv - the recent stable versions are quite good. They work for both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels.

Additional information related to IvyTV:

• the ivtvfb dev is available as part of the 71d version or at the badzzz site above. It's basically a much quicker version of fbdev and it goes in your XF86Config-4 file

The next release of ivtv is coming soon - here are some /Pre Release10Docs

DVD Settings

you may find this snippet from a mailinglist useful:

I've found some stuff for configuring my PVR350 tuner card that I am having problems finding info for. Under the Settings->TV Settings->Recording Profiles->MPEG-2 Encoders (PVR-250, PVR-350)-> Default->Video Compression settings, I find an option for Stream Type that has many options. The default is MPEG-2 PS. Some of the other options are MPEG-2 TS, MPEG-1 VCD, PES AV, PES V, PES A, DVD, DVD Special 1, DVD SPecial 2. Can anyone provide some insight into what these settings are intended for?

Well, TS and PS are the standard transport and program stream respectively. VCD is mpeg1 compression and will give a VCD compliant stream when used in combination with the proper resolution and bitrate settings. The same for DVD and DVD2, those are DVD compliant mpeg2 streams which will give an mpeg2 stream which hasn't to be replexed when in is in a compliant resolution and bitrate. DVD2 is the streamtype MS MCE uses and therefore should be the one the firmware is optimised for. So I use this one. If there ever is a DVD burning module I'm prepared