[mythtv-users] HD-PVR Support

[nik gibson]

Thanks everyone for all the great (and fast) replies.  I'm going to rebuild
my myth box from scratch with mythbuntu 9.04 and then re-compile 0.22 or use
the repo's for the weekly trunk builds.    If other people are using trunk
and find it stable then it could of been a problem with my underlying setup.

Thanks again.

-Nik-

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:18 AM, John Hoyt <john.hoyt at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:13 AM, nik gibson <nik.gibson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Recently my cable provider applied 5c encryption to over 90% of my
>> channels so my mythtv firewire setup is now almost useless.  As a result I
>> ordered a hauppauge HD-PVR.  Unfortunately myth 0.21 doesn't support the
>> HD-PVR so I compiled and installed the trunk version of 0.22 which I got
>> running but was basically unusuble.  I had crashes, loading bars that never
>> went away, extremely slow performance among other issues.
>> Given the anticipation around 0.22 I was dissapointed and I hope it was
>> issues with my setup as opposed to the quality of the trunk build.
>>
>> I'm wondering:
>>
>>
>>    1. Is there anyone who has a working config with the HD-PVR, either
>>    with trunk or patched 0.21?
>>    2. Is my experience with trunk typical?  Is it too buggy to be used or
>>    could there have been issues with my setup?
>>
>> Any feedback would be much appreciated.  If I can't get the HD-PVR to work
>> with myth I don't really have any choice but to switch to SageTV or
>> something else that supports the latest hardware.   I've been a loyal Myth
>> user for over 4 years so I would hate to have to have to switch but I need
>> to be able to record.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> -Nik-
>>
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> I use an HD-PVR as my main recorder and it is quite stable.  What version
> of trunk are you running and did you install the
> DeviceReadBuffer-polltimeout.2.patch per the HD-PVR wiki's recommendation?
>
> As a side note, this patch was just committed to trunk so if you update
> your source and re-compile you no longer have to install the patch, but will
> get the added benefit of better stability.
>
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