[mythtv-users] trying to add a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1250

[James Crow]

On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 07:58 -0700, Mike Millner wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I bought a 2nd tuner card...Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1250 to try and get the
> over the air HD channels. As you can see from the output below it
> seems that the computer sees both the new and old card. I've tried
> some different things I found from searching but I can't get mplayer
> or vlc to play it much less mythtv. I included a bunch of output below
> hoping to give someone enough info to point me in the right direction.
> My PVR-150 works great as /dev/video0. I expected to see a /dev/videoX
> for the new card. I actually have a /dev/video24  and
> a /dev/video/32..they don't seem to be related to the new card..not
> sure what they are. 
> 
> Some of the instructions I found talked about a /dev/dvb/adapter0
> which I have and I figured this is the new card
> but nothing will play through  it
>  
> I don't really know what I'm doing...just trying some things to try to
> make this work. I think I'm close
> 
>  
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> 
> Thanks, 
> Mike
> 
> 
> Please see the output here. The mail was too long to be posted. 
> 
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1014551
> 

Mike,

  US OTA broadcast cards are DVB cards to Linux. You can use the 'scan'
program from the dvb-utils package to see what channels your card is
seeing. I don't know about the particular card you have, but if it has
an analog side (for NTSC or cable) then it may get its own /dev/videoX.
The OTA digital side should be under /dev/dvb/dapaterX.

Cheers,
James