[mythtv-users] gateway pvr cards -- 100% compatibles?

[James L. Paul]

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Jarod C. Wilson wrote:
|> Ian Forde wrote:
|> | Incidentally, it looks like the PVR-250MCE card listed on Hauppauge's
|> | web site is this card...
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| On Saturday, Oct 11, 2003, at 11:05 US/Pacific, James L. Paul wrote:
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|> I can confirm that the Gateway OEM cards that are reputedly system pulls
|> from Mediacenter PCs work just fine with ivtv as far as have seen. I
|> bought 2 of those from that same guy on Ebay. (I have no relationship at
|> all to this guy, other than buying these cards and talking him into
|> shipping USPS Priority Mail.)
|
|
| I am REALLY beginning to hate top-posting... :)

OK, my bad. No more top-posting. :) How about inline instead?

| Anyhow, I just wanted to repeat this. The MS code-name for the first
| release of Windows XP Media Center Edition is "Freestyle". MCE ==
| Freestyle, and WinTV PVR-250MCE == WinTV Freestyle == WinTV OEM (more or
| less). For the record, XP MCE 2004 is code-named "Harmony", but I have
| yet to see a card incorporating that moniker...

I haven't paid much attention to XP or it's variants, so I didn't even
know that MCE was a version of Windows XP. ;) I wish the list archives
were searchable, I probably would have noticed this. Thanks for pointing
it out!

Regardless of what these cards were originally intended for, they are
doing a great job in my MythTV box.

My /etc/modules.conf ivtv section is simple enough:

alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
alias char-major-81-1 ivtv
options ivtv debug=1 mpg_buffers=30
options tuner type=8
options msp3400 once=1 simple=1
add below ivtv msp3400 saa7115 tuner

I have to remember to reinstall the modules when I rebuild the kernel
(which I just did today to enable LVM so I could finish adding a 120GB
drive) but that's no concern at all. (What's one more "make install"
between friends?)


| I hear the MCE 2004 release sucks much less than the first. Not that I'd
| ever use it.

| --Jarod
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