[mythtv-users] newbie just starting up mythbuntu

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Mon Jan 30 02:39:05 UTC 2012


On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Michael Watson
<michael at thewatsonfamily.id.au> wrote:
> On 30/01/2012 11:31 AM, David Sims wrote:
>> Thanks Michael,
>>
>> It is a strange Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-950Q model.
>> Got it with Nero's LiquidTV quite a while ago.
>>
>> Looking on the label it states "Assembled in Indonesia".
>> NTSC/ATSC/QAM HD TV receiver
>> 72001 LF Rev B3F0 0708
>>
>> I found the page on Linuxtv.org for what I think is the firmware file.
>> It is located here:
>> http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-950Q
>>
>> Have not been able to confirm the firmware load just yet.
>>
>> Been working on trying to connect to Zap2it in order to download the local
>> us-bcast channel information.
>> Created my user account and password and ran the perl script.
>>
>> This does not seem to be giving me the correct information as well.  Got
>> some weird messages in the logs.
>> Work on just getting this to function is continuing...
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
>> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Michael Watson
>> Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2012 3:35 PM
>> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] newbie just starting up mythbuntu
>>
>> On 29/01/2012 9:30 PM, Richard Morton wrote:
>>> in the settings look for something called "Additional Drivers" or
>>> "restricted drivers" (its changed its name and I may not have got it
>>> right).
>>>
>>> in there you can enable the firmware if it is available from the
>>> ubuntu repository.
>>>
>>> I have to do this for some of my cards.
>>>
>>> R
>>>
>>>
>> This might be of some help as well.
>>
>> http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-950#Making_it_Work*
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Michael
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>>
> If you havent already, installing the "Additional Drivers" as Richard
> noted is worth a try, alternativly you can install using apt-get command
> like; "sudo apt-get install linux-firmware linux-firmware-nonfree"
>
> Looking at the log you posted earlier, it appears you (or myth has tried
> to) select the USB Capture device as a sound device.  The sound device
> you should be using is your motherboard sound device, something like
> "ALSA:iec958:CARD=Intel:DEV=0"..  Select this in Mythfrontend ->
> Settings -> General -> 4th Page, use the Scan for Audio Devices button,
> then select appropriate device.

This is an analogue tuner (well hybrid really but dealing woth the
analogue...) and needs a sound device to capture from - is that what
the error messages are refering to?


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