[mythtv-users] State of the PVR150/250 in 0.26?

[John Drescher]

> I've been using mythtv on and off for better part of the decade. I've gone
> through a number of hardware upgrades. For the last couple years, I've been
> running the hvr1250 as my primary tuner card. I've kept a the pvr150 in the
> machine as backup. However, with a recent upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04, I've seen
> numerous lockups, which go away as soon as I disable (not uninstall) the
> pvr150. I've also tried the pvr250 to the same results. Are these cards now
> considered legacy? I've considered upgrading to the hvr2250. Is now the time
> to retire the tuners?

I do several recordings per day on a pvr500 with mythtv. I did have
some deadlocks many months ago but that was not tuner specific and the
bug appears to be fixed. I have had no tuner related problems with
0.25 the 2 weeks I have used 0.26.


John