[mythtv-users] MythTV and HDTV?

John Patrick Poet john at BlueSkyTours.com
Wed Jun 16 16:46:08 EDT 2004


On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, John Roberts wrote:

>
> In regards to the pcHDTV HD-2000 product... I'm becoming very concerned about the "support" coming from the company.  I've been watching the forums very carefully over the past 6 months - and they seem to be having a hard time getting driver fixes out/etc.
>
> Can anyone confirm this?  Is the HD-2000 a viable option for mythtv?  I can't seem to find any other HDTV card with linux support.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>

pcHDTV is a two-person operation.  They do not seem to read their own
forums, but are very responsive to emails sent to:

support at pchdtv.com

It does take Jack Kelliher a while to produce new drivers (I am guessing he
has a day job), but the drivers they just released for the 2.6.x kernels
seem to work very well.

I have been happily using a HD-2000 card with Myth for 6 months.  Thanks to
Doug Larrick, Jason Hoos, Daniel Thor Kristjansson, Steve Brown, etc., Myth
and the HD-2000 actually get along quite well.

>From reading this mailing list, I actually see a lot more posts indicating
problem with the PVR-x50 cards, than I do with the HD-2000.

mythbackend crashes due to the HD-2000 are extremely rare.

They only problems I ever have, are caused by trying to tune to a digital
station which has gone off the air for some reason.  Thanks to Daniel,
*changing* channels to one which is "off the air" does not cause a serious
problem -- it just refuses to change the channel.

However, if you start mythfrontend up, and the backend wants to "start off"
on a station which is "off the air", it can get very confused.  I don't
watch much live TV with Myth, so this does not cause much of a problem.

John


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