[mythtv-users] Hauppauge WINTV-PVR-500MCE

[Jim Kusznir]

Brad Benson wrote:

>On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:40:15 -0800, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
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>>On Thursday 10 March 2005 13:34, Brad Benson wrote:
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>>>>>Also, a
>>>>>single 500 will work with 2 250s in the same backend in harmony?
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>>>>I'm not aware of any reason why it wouldn't, but I haven't yet grouped my
>>>>150 or 500 with other ivtv cards (besides each other, which works fine).
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>>>I'll be able to test this in a few weeks when my new 500 gets here. :)
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>>I'll try to beat you to it. My PVR-250 is sitting on my desk right now,
>>completely unused at the moment, along with a pair of M179s...
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>Jarod, any luck (or even time to try) running the 250 alongside the
>500?  I'm still waiting for my 500 to ship so I'm not able to do any
>testing yet.  Also, as an aside, I downloaded the latest ivtv-0.3
>driver and am not able to compile it on my system running FC1 on
>2.4.22-1.2199.nptl_52.rhfc1.at kernel from atrpms.  I know I need to
>pose this question on the ivtv list, but I thought someone might know
>offhand why that driver wouldn't compile.  I'm betting there's
>something (module, patch, etc) that's not included in that kernel that
>I need.
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I've got a 500 and a 250 in the same machine running ivtv 0.3.2j.  I'm 
having some tuner issues, but I don't think its related to the 250/500 
mix.  I have sucessfully gotten s-video/composite working from both the 
250 and the 500.  The driver auto-detects them fine.

One little trick I learned:  If something doesn't work right with a 
driver load, simply unloading and reloading the drivers doesn't work.  
In fact, just rebooting the box won't work either.  You need to do a 
full power down (to completey reset the PVR cards), otherwise the 
drivers continue to mis-detect the card and/or fail to initialize it.

This comes from spending hours and many reboots trying to get something 
to work, but failing and going to bed.  The first person up in the 
moring discovered the myth system not working, killed power to the box, 
booted it back up, and things worked again.

--Jim