[mythtv-users] Configuring Hauppauge 1600 for capture

[Greg Oliver]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:15 AM, mike at grounded.net <mike at grounded.net> wrote:
>> Okay, so I guess you're ready to configure MythTV to use it.  Here's a
>> guide:
>>
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_HVR-1600
>
> I followed this to get the card working but it doesn't get into how one would have an external source working.
>
>> You'll want to create a new video source, you can call it something like
>> "Satellite".  Then you create an input connection, which links the
>> analog capture card with your listings source.  You'll need to specify a
>> channel change script (you can use /bin/true for testing, which won't
>> actually change a channel, but should let you test that you get video).
>> You won't actually scan for channels, but rather you will just download
>> the list of channels from SD.
>
> This was the missing piece of the puzzle. Upon going through these steps, when I fired up the FE, the channel that the W5 receiver is on came up on the screen.
>
> I do have audio but it's slow motion along with the video.
>
>> Once you get recordings working this way, the next step is to configure
>> your IR blaster so that it actually changes the satellite STB channel to
>> the channel that MythTV wants when it goes to record.
>
> I get the picture now (pun intended) so your reply helped a lot, thanks.

Your refresh rate does not match the video frame rate and the CPU in
the system might be too slow to keep up?  Do you have X setup to allow
multiple modelines and have mythtv setup to allow native video
resolution playing?