[ale] mythtv capture card issues

[Byron Jeff]

On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 03:19:39PM -0500, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
> I have Mythubuntu 10.10 on this box.  I have dedicated this machine entirely as a backend (aka the primary backend).

Good and good.

> 
> I have the Hauppauge PVR 150 analog card on this machine.  I even
> installed the IVTV-utils package from ubuntu but this PVR 150 card does
> not get recognized.

There should be no need for this. My machine with PVR 250s, which is just a
dual PVR 150 was picked up right out of the box with Mythbuntu. So there's
absolutely no need to load any additional drivers.

Is the card in your list of PCI devices when you do an lspci?

> 
> I can proceed to do other things but first I want this tuner card to get
> recognized so I can start connecting my set top box via the Svideo
> connector and also record OTA channels.
> 
> I would like to  make this card recognizable.
> 

Of course. I'm telling you for certain that Mythbuntu picks up the card
automatically without any user intervention. So something else is going on.

My mythbuntu box has been down for a minute. If I get a chance this week,
I'll pull it out and check the status on the 3 Hauppauge tuners that are in
it.

BAJ

> Is there any MYTH fest around the corner ?
> 
> You guys think that if I bring this box to the ITT place on Feb 19th it might help
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -Narahari
> 
> On Feb 6, 2011 12:15 PM, "Byron Jeff" <byronjeff at mail.clayton.edu<mailto:byronjeff at mail.clayton.edu>> wrote:
> 
> Did you set up one of the numerous Myth flavored distributions out there?
> They all have the drivers setup so that you don't have to download them.
> 
> I've had good luck with mythbuntu. But any of Mythdora, KnoppiMyth, or any
> of the others should be helpful.
> 
> Just a word of advice: It's almost always better to set up the backend as a
> separate machine whos sole purpose is to manage myth. Since the cards
> handle the encoding, pretty much any machine is fine for the task.
> 
> Also remember that you'll need to get a Schedules Direct account for the
> schedules.
> 
> See about getting a Myth distribution Live CD and test with it.
> 
> With myth servers coming prepackaged in distributions, there's little need
> to try to cobble it together by hand.
> 
> BAJ
> 
> On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 09:31:36AM -0500, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
> > Friends:
> >
> > Thanks for ...
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