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I'd love to replace my flakey HDPVR's with HDPVR 2's.<br>
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Gerald<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2015-08-09 03:45 PM, John P Poet
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<div dir="ltr">I have sent Hauppauge several emails over the last
several months asking for development information for the
HD-PVR2. I explain that I am a MythTV developer and would like
to add support for it. In each case their response has been
just a terse "It is still in beta". They don't seem to have any
interest in a MythTV developer adding support for the device.<br>
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Devin Heitmueller and I ended up talking about the HD-PVR2
recently, and he mentioned that Kernel Labs has had working
Linux support for the HD-PVR2 for a couple of years now. Kernel
Labs writes drivers and supports video capture devices for the
Broadcast/Audio/Video industries:<br>
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href="http://www.kernellabs.com/blog/?page_id=2">http://www.kernellabs.com/blog/?page_id=2</a><br>
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They support all the different flavors of the HD-PVR2 (I was not
previously aware that there was more than one), and their driver
supports all of its various options and controls. Devin says
that their HD-PVR2 driver is very robust, and it would have to
be to keep their clients happy. He says that the HD-PVR2 is a
significant improvement over the HD-PVR including much better
audio/video sync.<br>
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Long story short, Kernel Labs is willing to consider making
their HD-PVR2 driver available for MythTV users. It would not
be free, but the price would be a fraction of what they normally
charge. Devin would even be willing to write the MythTV code to
make it all work.<br>
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As a bonus, Devin says that he would do a complete code-audit of
MythTV's V4L2 'recorder', optimizing it and removing the cruft
that has built up over the years. This should result in
improved support for everything from the old PVR-150 to the
HVR-2250, as well as the HD-PVR. It might even result in faster
channel changing with the HD-PVR.<br>
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For Devin to commit to this work, he would need to see enough
interest to make it worth while. How many of you would like to
see robust support for the HD-PVR2 and improved support for
other V4L2 devices?<br>
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John<br>
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