[mythtv-users] Pinnacle PCTV HD Pro Stick

[Raphael Pooser]

Patrick Doyle wrote:
> On Dec 10, 2007 10:33 PM, raphy <rpooser at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Dec 5, 2007 3:40 PM, Patrick Doyle <wpdster at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Did anybody (else) notice the Woot branded version of this device on
>>> Woot a few days ago?
>> I'm trying to go down this route right now. If you look around on the
>> net you'll find a few people here and there who have it working. A few
>> have it working with mythtv. I have ATSC TV working and can view dvb
>> with sound in mplayer using "mplayer dvb://"
>> I can tune channels using azap and scanned using scan from dvb-utils.
>> DVB in kaffiene doesn't work. In mythtv I can't add any channels. It
>> refuses to parse my channels.conf file. Basically that's where I'm
>> stuck.
> I'm in much the same place -- I got as far as scanning for channels in
> my area (25 miles west of Boston, MA) to create a channels.conf file,
> being able to use mplayer to look at each of them, and finding that
> channel 2, PBS, is the only one that I can receive reliably with the
> omni antenna that came with the stick sitting on the couch next to me.
>  (Yes, I was doing this while watching live TV on the regular set :-))
>  I have high hopes of spending some more time on this effort later
> this week.
> 
> For those who follow after and dig this email up out of an archive
> someplace (gossamer threads is a great place for finding stuff like
> this), I've been following the instructions given at
> http://mcentral.de/wiki/index.php/Em2880 on MythBuntu running on a
> woefully underpowered very old laptop.
> 
> --wpd
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Yes, in my last post I mentioned that the latest svn in trunk works well 
with the tuner. I'll also add that a 1.6 GHz Athlon-XP-m (which actually 
uses the K8 core with 64bit disabled) is enough to play 1080i with 80% 
processor usage without any skips or problems. This is what I have on my 
laptop.
If your tuner is working to watch dvb with sound in mplayer, it will 
work in the latest mythtv based on my experience. It did not work with 
0.20.2 release version. You'll probably have more luck with a bigger 
antenna.
Also forgot to mention: it looks like the em28xx that works with this 
stick is not compatible with the PVR cards from Hauppage. A few people 
including me have a hanging boot problem after installing the em28xx 
drivers. Physically removing both my PVR-150's from the machine cause 
the machine to boot normally. It's bad news for most people, but for me 
it doesn't matter since my analog reception is literally unwatchable on 
all channels ever since I canceled cable.