[mythtv-users] What Haupage PVR-x50 to get?

[Chris Moewes-Bystrom]

I have 2 pvr-150mce cards. They work just fine. I started out with one
card and then found I was having a lot of conflicts when recording so
I decided to add a second card. Works like a charm.

On 5/2/06, Martijn Morriën <dj.escay at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a Terratec Cinergy 400 SAA7134 tuner card working with MythTv. I had
> a lot of issues getting it to work properly. First I had problems with
> channel tuning, but once you know how to fill them (easiest way is to set
> them via mythweb in Hz) I ran into sound issues. When using the saa7134
> internal sound decoder I got a lot of static when switching channels, which
> could cause speaker damage, so I went for the external sound cable but now I
> don't have very good sound quality and it is more difficult to set up
> (default sound card values needed e.g.).
>
>  The things I'm missing is: the saa7134 uses software encoding, so recording
> and viewing at the same time doesn't work very well. And I can't record two
> shows at a time. Which occured more during the past half year than I would
> expect.
>
>  Tvtime is very nice to test the saa7134 card, mainly because automatic
> channel scanning works
>
>  I'm thinking about getting a PVR 500 with 2 tuners.
>
>  Martijn (also from the Netherlands)
>
>
> On 5/2/06, NINjak <ninjak at ss-nl.com> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I need some help to fix things or some info to get the right Haupage card.
> >
> > I was building and installing my first mythTV setup and I used an Pinnacle
> > PCTV (saa7134 chipset) tv card. The Pinnacle card refused to work but
> > after a while, finaly it did. Well "worked" is a big word because I only
> > saw one channel (BBC) but I was not able to zap through the other(?)
> > channels. To get the channels tuned is kinda hard or the card is/was not
> > working correctly. Before I got the BBC channel (with mythTV) I try'd some
> > other settings with tvtime but, at that time, that did not help me much
> > (did lot's of lsmod, rmmod and modprobe to get/find the right card
> > settings).
> >
> > To test some things differently I took an other HD and installed w*nd*ws
> > on that setup to see if the card/drivers where working correctly (maybe
> > the pinnacle card got some problems with linux). In w*nd*ws the card is
> > reporting an (irq) error and did not (yet) work at all while with mythTV I
> > could see at least 1 channel ;) I will try some other things to solve the
> > IRQ problem and maybe then the card will respond in linux better than just
> > that one BBC channel.
> >
> > - Are there people on this list got/had the same problems with the
> > Pinnacle or other brand, with the SAA7134 chipset, TV-card ?
> > - Can it be fixed ?
> > - If I take an Haupage PVR-x50 card, and leave the SAA7134 card for what
> > it is, wich one should I get ? and does the MCE versions work correctly
> > with linux ?
> >
> > I was thinking to get an Haugpage PVR-150 (with remote, so no MCE version)
> > but I could not see if that's the best choice. I wont be needing a second
> > one or a PVR-500 because when all works well I will also be using a DVB-S
> > in the near future. If someone got some nice info what DVB-S to get i
> > would be very happy.
> >
> > To give you some extra info:
> > I live in the Netherlands (europe), was using the latest kernel (kernel,
> > did see the tv-card correctly), AMD XP2600+, VIA KT400a chipset, 512Mb,
> > Nvidia GF4 and a SB Live (onboard, sounds bad).
> >
> > Thanks in advance....
> >
> > Cya,
> >
> > NINjak
> >
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