[mythtv-users] Suicable PCI replacement for a failing PVR150

[Roger Horner]

I will second the recommendation of the HVR-1600. I think the no audio issue has been pretty much resolved in the latest drivers. I know there are patches and work arrounds to the issue.

Roger
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On 2012-04-06, at 2:09 PM, "Rob Davis" <rob at davis-family.info> wrote:

> Without wishing to pour too much cold water, unfortunetely, you guys are
> talking about incompatible cards to each other.  I'm pretty sure Jan is
> somewhere in Europe using PAL/DVB-T and Andrew in Canada using NTSC/ATSC. 
> Any card bought in Canada is going to have a different chipset than bought
> in Europe even if it carried the same number.  Although I suspect that
> Hauppauge would call it something like an HVR-1950 over here and HVR-1900
> in Europe.
> 
> Andrew, I think you already mention that you have 2 x HDPVR's on your USB
> subsystem, putting another two devices on this will probably overtax it. 
> I would suggest keeping with PCI.  I picked up a Hauppauge dual mode 1600,
> you can use it with ATSC and Mpeg2 at the same time.  Although every now
> and then the driver breaks and either loads with no audio or won't load
> the analog part.
> 
> If your 150s work for you, try and get a 500 on eBay.
> 
>> On 06/04/12 17:51, Andrew Stadt wrote:
>>> On 06/04/2012 11:04 AM, Jan Ceuleers wrote:
>>>> I went for HVR1900s, since they are more future-proof both from the
>>>> point of view of connectivity (USB rather than ever-less-available
>>>> PCI), and because they are dual-technology (analogue and DVB-T).
>>> Thanks for the info Jan,
>>> 
>>> If you don't mind me asking, how well are they supported? Any
>>> issues/problems/etc? Drivers work out of the box, or need to be compiled
>>> (not an issue, but nice to know ahead of time)? Don't need the
>>> ir/blaster support, have that covered through other means.
>> 
>> They are well supported by the pvrusb2 driver. They take a while to
>> initialise at boot, so you may need to delay starting your backend until
>> they are up and running.
>> 
>> Full disclosure: I've been having occasional problems whereby USB
>> connectivity became unreliable (about once every couple of weeks or so).
>> This began only when I added the fourth tuner to the system, prior to
>> that I had perhaps two occurrences per year (i.e. with only three of
>> these tuners or fewer).
>> 
>> When it became irksome enough to do something about it I asked the kind
>> folks on the pvrusb2 mailing list, and we all agreed that given my
>> symptoms (which I haven't fully described here) the issue is most likely
>> due to the USB subsystem in the kernel rather than the tuners or the
>> pvrusb2 driver.
>> 
>> I have since installed a 3.3.0 kernel and have not had any problems.
>> That's now a couple of weeks ago and I haven't had problems yet. Too
>> early to say whether the problem is solved though.
>> 
>> More info about the boot process. If your distro is using upstart, then
>> please refer to
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Upstart_mythbackend_Configuration#Delay_starting_the_backend_until_all_tuners_have_initialised
>> . As you can see, I only had 2 HVR1900s when I wrote this
>> 
>> HTH, Jan
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