[mythtv-users] On ivtv..

[Jarod C. Wilson]

On Dec 16, 2003, at 21:49, Dale Weber wrote:

> On Tuesday 16 December 2003 09:20 pm, Will Dormann wrote:
>> http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2003-November/020984.html
>
> 	My comments below relate to the posting referenced above and my own 
> direct
> experiences only.
>
> 	I looked at this, but there is no definition of what is not 
> supported.  There
> obvious is -some- support through standard kernel modules, because I 
> can get
> a picture when using XawTV - not a good picture at present, but a 
> picture.  I
> have had sound from this card under Linux before also.
>
> 	To see this posting say the card is not supported, at least not 
> without
> qualification of the answer, doesn't seem quite right.  To me, when 
> somebody
> says "it is not supported", it means NO part of it is supported.  This
> clearly is not the case for the model 880 WinTV/PVR card.
>
> 	If the PVR portions of the card are not supported, then I have no 
> more reason
> to deal with this older model 880 and will hold off on MythTV until I 
> can get
> a PVR/350.  This is the entire question I am trying to answer right 
> now,
> without success.  The hardware of the model 880 seems to be plenty good
> enough to deserve proper support.

Here's qualification: it uses a completely different chipset. The ivtv 
driver only supports iTVC15/16 aka CX23415/23416 chipsets. The 
WinTV-PVR-PCI uses a combination of Fusion878A and some other chip that 
I don't recall (check your PCB) for the hardware encoding.

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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