[mythtv-users] Video-in support for DVICO HDTV DVB-T

[Aaron Sedgmen]

Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 22:57 +1000, Paul Andreassen wrote:
> > > On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 10:16 am, Heather and Aaron wrote:
> > > I'm contemplating getting one of the DVICO cards for my new (first 
> > > ever)
> > > mythtv system, and I want to have video-in functionality.
>
> > You may need to load the Linux kernel module.  'cx8800'
>
> > Go into 'mythtv-setup' and add another '2. Capture cards' -> '(New 
> > capture
> > card)' -> 'Standard V4L capture card' and select the right 'Video 
> > device'.  I
> > couldn't get the audio connectors on the DVB-T card to work, so I 
> > connected
> > directly to the sound card.
>
> If you do this and also add the card as a DVB card, MythTV will consider
> the cards as two separate cards and will schedule concurrent recordings
> on both cards. I don't believe this will work as the DVB and analog
> parts of the card probably don't function independently. MythTV in SVN
> can handle this properly, but may need some small modification to allow
> you to configure this particular card in mythtv-setup.
>
> Currently MythTV in SVN head will allow you to configure the analog
> portion of a DVB card if it is an ATSC card from either pcHDTV or DVICO.
> The code that enables this is on line 2073 of videosource.cpp, in order
> to enable this for testing for DVB-T you need to add this line:
>      buttonAnalog->setVisible(true);
> on line 2063. This will add an 'Analog Options' button to the DVB card
> config, where you can configure the analog portion of the card. If this
> works please open a ticket with the output of "mythbackend -v channel"
> from making a short recording on each input and assign the ticket to
> 'danielk'. I will then add this card to the list of DVB cards with
> analog parts so others will not have to jump through these hoops.
>
> -- Daniel

Paul, Daniel,

Thanks for the response.  This is pretty much the answer I was hoping for - 
time to go shopping for the card!  I will try it out on my current mythtv 
install (0.19 on FC4) as per Paul's instructions and go from there 
(apologies for the initial email being in html).

Thanks again,

Aaron.