<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Daryl McDonald <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:darylangela@gmail.com" target="_blank">darylangela@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Larry Finger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net" target="_blank">Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On 02/11/2015 12:35 AM, Karl Newman wrote:<br>
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On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Karl Newman <<a href="mailto:siliconfiend@gmail.com" target="_blank">siliconfiend@gmail.com</a><br></span><div><div>
<mailto:<a href="mailto:siliconfiend@gmail.com" target="_blank">siliconfiend@gmail.com</a><u></u>>> wrote:<br>
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Hi all,<br>
<br>
It appears that one of the tuners/encoders of my (9 year old!) PVR-500 has<br>
given up the ghost (recordings are all 0 byte). I could replace it with an<br>
eBay version, but given that those are going to be a similar vintage, and<br>
the fact that I had to search around for a MB with PCI slots last time I<br>
upgraded, I want to go to PCIe for better compatibility. I only need analog<br>
SD capture. I can't use digital at all--cable has been encrypted for years<br>
and I'd probably need about a 300 foot mast to pick up any ATSC broadcasts.<br>
I don't need any IR support. I noticed the HVR-2250 was listed on the Wiki,<br>
and it looks like this supports dual analog capture which appeals to me as a<br>
complete replacement for my PVR-500 (who knows how much longer the other<br>
tuner/encoder will last). So, anybody using this card for analog? Or any<br>
other suggestions for cards (stability is the utmost concern). Ideally it<br>
will support tuning RF NTSC that my DTA box is putting out, because I don't<br>
know if that part is still working on the PVR-500 (the functional tuner is<br>
using composite+stereo). I could use a single tuner card as long as I can<br>
continue to use my PVR-500 as well (I know about stable device naming with<br>
udev).<br>
<br>
On a related note, I'll need to get a new case to accommodate this card. I'm<br>
currently using a low profile Silverstone LC-11M with a PCI riser card that<br>
turns the cards sideways. I no longer have the height constraints that I did<br>
when I bought that case, so my options are a lot broader. Silverstone or<br>
Antec or ??? Just looking for something black/dark that will blend in to the<br>
living room. Doesn't necessarily need a LCD display--I hardly look at it<br>
now--but it would be nice I guess. Needs to accommodate a microATX board, 3x<br>
3.5 inch HDDs and a BluRay drive. My current case is relatively noisy with<br>
fans but it doesn't really bother us much, however quieter is always better.<br>
<br>
This failure is actually not all bad--it was overdue for a replacement, it's<br>
still partly functional (I was surprised I didn't have more conflicts when I<br>
removed the bad tuner) and this will get me on a path to my planned future<br>
setup with a single analog card tied to the STB so we can record the premium<br>
channels and eventually a CableCard Ethernet tuner (*still* waiting on the<br>
transcoding model SiliconDust...)<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
Karl<br>
<br>
<br>
Ha! Well, it looks like my wallet will be staying closed for now. It appeared<br>
that my remaining single tuner recorded programs successfully today, but when we<br>
went to watch them it had recorded the wrong channel. A quick check of LiveTV<br>
showed my IR blaster was not firing. Further investigation showed a failure in<br>
my channel change script--running it on the command line revealed that suddenly<br>
.5 was not a valid real number for a delay and I had to change it to 0.5. I<br>
traced it back to a "routine" package upgrade Sunday evening that upgraded perl<br>
from 5.18 to 5.20 which was suddenly more picky about argument format. I use the<br>
same script (with different config files) for both inputs, but the reason it<br>
only caused one of them to fail is that one was calling the script directly,<br>
which returned the failure to mythbackend (No error mentioned in the log at all,<br>
by the way...) whereas the one that was still "working" had its error swallowed<br>
up by the wrapper script I use with it to work around an audio bug.<br>
<br>
Thanks to all for your input. Maybe if/when a reliable HVR 2255 driver comes out<br>
I might make the leap.<br>
<br>
Karl<br>
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Karl,<br>
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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.<br>
<div><br></div></blockquote></div></div><div>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.</div></div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br>That's a good point, Daryl. Larry, have you considered using the PVR-500 with a STB or DTA box(es)? (would require an IR blaster or some other method to change the channel on the box). Not that I wouldn't appreciate having a backup device, but it would be better for you to use it if it was still useful to you.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Karl<br></div></div>