[olug] Ok.. MythTV'ers... I give up! [ solved - I feel stupid.... ]

[roberson at olug.org]

Ok... I feel dumb now.... this card (wintv-pvr-150) is an MPEG capture
card, not unlike it's 250 and 350 bretheren... so I was making the
in-experience choice in mythtv setup .... it is NOT a Standard v4l
device.... OMG.... MANY HOURS wasted on such a trivial thing.... wholly
crap!

MythTV & this card works like a champ.... and for those not-in-the-know ..
xawtv does not work with MPEG capture cards, only V4L cards... DOH!






> Not necesarily myth-tv specific... but I acquired a hauppage wintv-pvr-150
> from a friend and am going coo coo for cocoa puffs.. the problem I am
> having is getting the darn thing to tune properly, I have tried everything
> in my powers to get this thing to work, from trying kernel 2.4 vs 2.6 and
> ivtv versions 2.0 ( deprecated, I know ) to the bleeding edge ivtv-devel
> (5.0) to selectively modprobing ivtv with all 10 tuner types I have found
> via google (2,37,39,50,51,55 - and a few other. just for the thrill of it
> )
>
> If I load ivtv with tdda3997=0 and tuner=37 ... I can get mplayer to dump
> the mpeg stream ( mplayer /dev/video0 ) but even rudementarily using
> ivtcctl -r to manually tune the tuner I cannot get it to change
> frequency...
>
>
> I've spent a few hours on it and am about to give up... I have even tried
> different distros:
> knoppmyth, ubuntu, suse 10, FC4, blah blah blah...
>
>
> Has ANYONE here gotten this card to work under linux? I have seen MANY
> reports/howto's that say yes - but I am obviously missing something
> stupid!
>
>
>
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