[mythtv-users] PVR250 question

[Robert Kulagowski]

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> >These and other questions are answered in the HOWTO.  Did you read
> >it?
> It's not obvious... I'd read it a while ago and looked for 
> new sections on the PVR250, but there's nothing in the index
> (except for an  irrelevant troubleshooting topic) so I'd assumed
> there wasn't anything new. It's  hidden away.

Section 3.1, hardware and section 19,
http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-19.html#ss19.10 should have a
fairly good explanation of requirements.

> - is the PVR250/350 code reliable enough yet?

It's CVS code; reliability is not guaranteed.  It's kernel-mode
driver code; by definition, it may totally trash your system.

> From comments in this mailing list it looks like people have lots
> of problems with it.  

And the ones that don't probably don't say anything.  I got my PVR250
running within about an hour.  For the most part, people have
problems because they don't have V4L2 support either available as a
module or compiled into their system.  Once that's in place, driver
installation is a matter of following the steps in the ivtv driver
documentation.

If you're not comfortable with running CVS code, you should probably
wait.

> - Can MythTV handle 3 capture cards in one PC?

Can MythTV handle it?  Sure.  Can your CPU?  That's the better
question.  I don't know that anyone has that many capture cards in
their machine, mostly because you'll have to make a tradeoff in
resolution to run that many cards unless you have a very fast
processor, and the delta between getting 1 really fast processor with
3 cards in it vs a bunch of smaller/cheaper boxes may not be worth
it.  You're probably going to start running into PCI bandwidth issues
as well.


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