[mythtv-users] PVR250 question

[Isaac Richards]

On Wednesday 30 April 2003 10:43 am, Jeffrey Brent McBeth wrote:
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> On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 02:33:49PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
> > - is the PVR250/350 code reliable enough yet? Do I need to be a Linux
> > guru to install the drivers? (for me reading the HOWTO it looks as if I
> > do need to be, but someone who's done it (and who isn't a guru) might be
> > able to give a subjective view). From comments in this mailing list it
> > looks like people have lots of problems with it.
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> Unfortunately, I would probably be considered a guru, so you might want to
> ignore this. If you are willing to stick with stock 2.4.20, it really is
> fairly trivial to get the driver working.  Take it slow, 90% of the
> problems people have isn't with the driver; but rather, getting mythtv to
> recognize that the driver is installed.

And that's no longer an issue with current CVS -- I've got my own copy of the 
v4l headers included now, so unless you don't tell it that it's a hardware 
encoder card, it's hard to mess up =)

Isaac