<div dir="ltr">On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 6:15 AM, Roberto Salvatierra <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robertosalvatierra@hotmail.com">robertosalvatierra@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>I was looking yesterday at the support for linux for the "Hauppauge HVR-1600" and it seems promising but I would like to know some hands on user experiences.<br>
</div></blockquote></div><br>I have been using an HVR-1600 to complement my existing PVR-150. I'm using the HVR-1600 to capture only ATSC, though it capable of recording ATSC and analog simultaneously. The 1600 is rock-steady. It's really been a non-issue, and I highly recommend it. The price is reasonable, too.<br>
<br>I suggest looking at the IVTV page for the CX18 chipset (<a href="http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Cx18">http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Cx18</a>) that's used in the 1600. I'm using a snapshot of the IVTV drivers from mid-July 2008 that's been very stable with my 2.6.25 kernel.<br>
<br>Here's what the kernel log shows for the CX18:<br><font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" size="2"><br></font><pre><font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" size="2">cx18: Start initialization, version 1.0.0<br>
cx18-0: Initializing card #0<br>cx18-0: Autodetected Hauppauge card<br>cx18-0: cx23418 revision 01010000 (B)<br>cx18-0: Autodetected Hauppauge HVR-1600<br>cx18-0: VBI is not yet supported<br>tuner 3-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (cx18 i2c driver #0-1)<br>
cs5345 2-004c: chip found @ 0x98 (cx18 i2c driver #0-0)<br>cx18-0: Disabled encoder IDX device<br>cx18-0: Registered device video1 for encoder MPEG (2 MB)<br>DVB: registering new adapter (cx18)<br>cx18-0: DVB Frontend registered<br>
cx18-0: Registered device video2 for encoder YUV (2 MB)<br>cx18-0: Registered device video3 for encoder PCM audio (1 MB)<br>cx18-0: Initialized card #0: Hauppauge HVR-1600<br>cx18: End initialization<br>cx18-0: loaded v4l-cx23418-apu.fw firmware V00120000 (141200 bytes)<br>
cx18-0: loaded v4l-cx23418-cpu.fw firmware (158332 bytes)<br>cx18-0: FW version: <a href="http://0.0.74.0">0.0.74.0</a> (Release 2007/03/12)</font><br><font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" size="2">cx18-0: loaded v4l-cx23418-dig.fw firmware (16382 bytes)</font></pre>
<br><br>And here's the output from IVTV:<br><font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" size="2"><br></font><pre><font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" size="2"># /usr/local/bin/v4l2-ctl --log-status --device=/dev/video_hvr1600<br>
<br>Status Log:<br><br> cx18-0: ================= START STATUS CARD #0 =================<br> tveeprom 2-0050: Hauppauge model 74041, rev C5B2, serial# 3094739<br> tveeprom 2-0050: MAC address is 00-0D-FE-2F-38-D3<br>
tveeprom 2-0050: tuner model is TCL M2523_5N_E (idx 112, type 50)<br> tveeprom 2-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08)<br> tveeprom 2-0050: audio processor is CX23418 (idx 38)<br> tveeprom 2-0050: decoder processor is CX23418 (idx 31)<br>
tveeprom 2-0050: has no radio, has IR receiver, has IR transmitter<br> cx18-0: Video signal: not present<br> cx18-0: Detected format: NTSC-M<br> cx18-0: Specified standard: NTSC-M<br>
cx18-0: Specified video input: Composite 7<br> cx18-0: Specified audioclock freq: 48000 Hz<br> cx18-0: Detected audio mode: mono<br> cx18-0: Detected audio standard: BTSC<br> cx18-0: Audio muted: no<br>
cx18-0: Audio microcontroller: running<br> cx18-0: Configured audio standard: automatic detection<br> cx18-0: Configured audio system: BTSC<br> cx18-0: Specified audio input: Tuner (In8)<br> cx18-0: Preferred audio mode: stereo<br>
cs5345 2-004c: Input: 1<br> cs5345 2-004c: Volume: 0 dB<br> tuner 3-0061: Tuner mode: analog TV<br> tuner 3-0061: Frequency: 67.25 MHz<br> tuner 3-0061: Standard: 0x00001000<br> cx18-0: Video Input: Tuner 1<br>
cx18-0: Audio Input: Tuner 1<br> cx18-0: GPIO: direction 0x00003001, value 0x00003001<br> cx18-0: Tuner: TV<br> cx18-0: Stream: MPEG-2 Program Stream<br> cx18-0: VBI Format: No VBI<br> cx18-0: Video: 720x480, 30 fps<br>
cx18-0: Video: MPEG-2, 4x3, Variable Bitrate, 6000000, Peak 8000000<br> cx18-0: Video: GOP Size 15, 2 B-Frames, GOP Closure<br> cx18-0: Audio: 48 kHz, Layer II, 224 kbps, Stereo, No Emphasis, No CRC<br> cx18-0: Spatial Filter: Manual, Luma 1D Horizontal, Chroma 1D Horizontal, 0<br>
cx18-0: Temporal Filter: Manual, 8<br> cx18-0: Median Filter: Off, Luma [0, 255], Chroma [0, 255]<br> cx18-0: Status flags: 0x00200001<br> cx18-0: Stream encoder MPEG: status 0x0000, 0% of 2016 KiB (63 buffers) in use<br>
cx18-0: Stream encoder YUV: status 0x0000, 0% of 2048 KiB (16 buffers) in use<br> cx18-0: Stream encoder PCM audio: status 0x0000, 0% of 1008 KiB (63 buffers) in use<br> cx18-0: Read MPEG/VBI: 0/0 bytes</font><br> cx18-0: ================== END STATUS CARD #0 ==================</pre>
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