[pvrusb2] WinTV-PVR USB2

[Mike Isely]

On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, Robert Casper wrote:

> --- On Thu, 12/3/09, Mike Isely <isely at isely.net> wrote:
> > 
> > Are you sure you are using the device correctly?
> > 
> > 
> > Yes I see in your previous message that you did try mplayer on the 
> > device node.  Try it again as I describe above - also you most 
> > likely need to be running as root when you do this...
> > 
> 
> I'm not sure I'm using it correctly :)
> 
> Tried doing "sudo mplayer /dev/video1" and got a window full of static, which was quite exciting after so long with no results.

Getting a bunch of static actually means that most of the video pipeline 
is probably working (otherwise you'd just get no data at all).  Probably 
you're not tuning a valid signal.  This is why it is useful to try 
simpler things first as I had suggested in my earlier message.  If you 
can run a VCR, DVD player, or a camcorder into the composite input then 
you can test a subset of the device - the composite input does not use 
the RF tuner portion and so you can verify the rest of the device even 
if the tuner isn't entirely there yet.


> 
> Discovered that the program I wanted to use - Me TV - doesn't work with analog mpeg2 tuners.

I don't follow this statement.  If you're tuning an analog station, then 
of course it's going to work with an "analog mpeg2 tuner".  Now, if 
you're talking about a digital station (e.g. ATSC signal) then you 
definitely need a different kind of tuner.  The newer HVR-1950 (it's a 
24xxx which also has a digital tuner and a different package style) 
would work in that case.


> 
> So I got ambitious and installed MythTV!  Got the channel listings 
> working but still it won't recognize my tuner.  I set the card type to 
> "IVTV MPEG-2 encoder card" which seemed the best choice.

Yes, that should be the right choice.


> 
> Based on what you wrote it's probably not a driver problem, I just 
> don't have MythTV set up correctly.  I have my cable TV as input, the 
> goal is to be able to watch cable channels on my computer.

Well as I said, start with simpler things first (see above).  Trying to 
get it all to work at once - with MythTV no less - is probably about as 
complicated as you can get.

  -Mike

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