[mythtv-users] New Hauppauge Cards (PVR-150 and PVR-500)

Nate Carlson natecars at natecarlson.com
Tue Oct 19 19:33:15 UTC 2004


On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Thomas M. Pluth wrote:
> Hauppauge has come out with two new MPEG-2 cards, the PVR-150 which is a 
> lower cost version of the PVR-250 and the PVR-500 which has dual tuners 
> and encoders.  I'm sure there are many on this list that would love to 
> see these supported by ivtv and MythTV.  To that end, I'm taking up a 
> collection to get one of each of these cards for Chris Kennedy to work 
> on. I'm primarily interested in the PVR-500 in order to save PCI slots, 
> but I'm sure there are many that are interested in the PVR-150, since 
> it's about half the price of the PVR-250.

>From what I've heard about this cards, they are CX88 based, and will never 
work with IVTV. They probably will, however, work with the cx88 driver for 
Blackbird cards:

http://linux.bytesex.org/v4l2/cx88.html
http://www.foks.8m.com/cx88-blackbird.html

I have no idea if the cx88 driver works with MythTV or not, just repeating 
information from the IVTV list.

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