[mythtv-users] PCIe analog capture card recommendations
Larry Finger
Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net
Wed Feb 11 19:51:42 UTC 2015
On 02/11/2015 11:57 AM, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net
> <mailto:Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>> wrote:
>
> On 02/11/2015 12:35 AM, Karl Newman wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Karl Newman <siliconfiend at gmail.com
> <mailto:siliconfiend at gmail.com>
> <mailto:siliconfiend at gmail.com <mailto:siliconfiend at gmail.com>__>> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> It appears that one of the tuners/encoders of my (9 year old!)
> PVR-500 has
> given up the ghost (recordings are all 0 byte). I could replace it
> with an
> eBay version, but given that those are going to be a similar
> vintage, and
> the fact that I had to search around for a MB with PCI slots last
> time I
> upgraded, I want to go to PCIe for better compatibility. I only
> need analog
> SD capture. I can't use digital at all--cable has been encrypted
> for years
> and I'd probably need about a 300 foot mast to pick up any ATSC
> broadcasts.
> I don't need any IR support. I noticed the HVR-2250 was listed on
> the Wiki,
> and it looks like this supports dual analog capture which appeals
> to me as a
> complete replacement for my PVR-500 (who knows how much longer the
> other
> tuner/encoder will last). So, anybody using this card for analog?
> Or any
> other suggestions for cards (stability is the utmost concern).
> Ideally it
> will support tuning RF NTSC that my DTA box is putting out, because
> I don't
> know if that part is still working on the PVR-500 (the functional
> tuner is
> using composite+stereo). I could use a single tuner card as long as
> I can
> continue to use my PVR-500 as well (I know about stable device
> naming with
> udev).
>
> On a related note, I'll need to get a new case to accommodate this
> card. I'm
> currently using a low profile Silverstone LC-11M with a PCI riser
> card that
> turns the cards sideways. I no longer have the height constraints
> that I did
> when I bought that case, so my options are a lot broader.
> Silverstone or
> Antec or ??? Just looking for something black/dark that will blend
> in to the
> living room. Doesn't necessarily need a LCD display--I hardly look
> at it
> now--but it would be nice I guess. Needs to accommodate a microATX
> board, 3x
> 3.5 inch HDDs and a BluRay drive. My current case is relatively
> noisy with
> fans but it doesn't really bother us much, however quieter is
> always better.
>
> This failure is actually not all bad--it was overdue for a
> replacement, it's
> still partly functional (I was surprised I didn't have more
> conflicts when I
> removed the bad tuner) and this will get me on a path to my planned
> future
> setup with a single analog card tied to the STB so we can record
> the premium
> channels and eventually a CableCard Ethernet tuner (*still* waiting
> on the
> transcoding model SiliconDust...)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Karl
>
>
> Ha! Well, it looks like my wallet will be staying closed for now. It
> appeared
> that my remaining single tuner recorded programs successfully today, but
> when we
> went to watch them it had recorded the wrong channel. A quick check of
> LiveTV
> showed my IR blaster was not firing. Further investigation showed a
> failure in
> my channel change script--running it on the command line revealed that
> suddenly
> .5 was not a valid real number for a delay and I had to change it to 0.5. I
> traced it back to a "routine" package upgrade Sunday evening that
> upgraded perl
> from 5.18 to 5.20 which was suddenly more picky about argument format. I
> use the
> same script (with different config files) for both inputs, but the reason it
> only caused one of them to fail is that one was calling the script directly,
> which returned the failure to mythbackend (No error mentioned in the log
> at all,
> by the way...) whereas the one that was still "working" had its error
> swallowed
> up by the wrapper script I use with it to work around an audio bug.
>
> Thanks to all for your input. Maybe if/when a reliable HVR 2255 driver
> comes out
> I might make the leap.
>
> Karl
>
>
> Karl,
>
> I have a functional PVR-500 that I am willing to give to you for the price
> of postage. That will keep your wallet nearly closed. I just got the
> inevitable letter from Time-Warner that they are shutting down analog TV in
> my neighborhood next month. That caused me to stop running a slave backend
> that contained the card.
>
> If you are interested, send private E-mail to Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net
> <mailto:Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>.
>
> Larry
>
>
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> Larry, my provider (cogeco) gave the same notice effective last month, but since
> I record from a STB I'm still using my PVR150. I tried, unsuccessfully, to use a
> digital card with the STB but reverted to getting QAM stations from the cable,
> with no STB, where analog has indeed disappeared.
My master BE has a PVR-150 that I plan to use with an STB, or alternatively I
will get a CableCard device. In any case, I had no desire to get 3 STB's to
support a PVR-500 as well, thus I shut down the slave BE.
Larry
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