[mythtv-users] Hauppauge WINTV-PVR-500MCE

[Jarod Wilson]

On Thursday 10 March 2005 13:34, Brad Benson wrote:
> > > Also, a
> > > single 500 will work with 2 250s in the same backend in harmony?
> >
> > I'm not aware of any reason why it wouldn't, but I haven't yet grouped my
> > 150 or 500 with other ivtv cards (besides each other, which works fine).
>
> I'll be able to test this in a few weeks when my new 500 gets here. :)

I'll try to beat you to it. My PVR-250 is sitting on my desk right now, 
completely unused at the moment, along with a pair of M179s...

>  I've currently got a single 350 doing encode and decode on my MBE/FE
> system.  When the 500 gets here I'll be putting that in the same
> system with the 350 and I'll report back with any problems.

One more thing to note about the 150 and 500 coexisting with a 350 and/or 
250... At the moment, scaling the video down to anything less than 
full-resolution (720x480 NTSC, 720x576 PAL) at encoding time is not yet 
possible on the 150 and 500, so your recording profiles will have to all use 
720x480 for the moment. I believe scaling is one of the next things on the 
list to tackle...

> Thanks for your hard work on this Jarod!

The bigger thanks go to a number of folks on the ivtv list, the tveeprom and 
tuner stuff I did was pretty trivial compared to the work they did on the 
cx25840 component. But I'll take what I can get. ;-)

> I've really been wanting to 
> add a new tuner and 2 is always better than 1 (as long as the 2
> actually work ;) ).  Since I only have 1 PCI slot left I was really
> hoping the 500 would get some working drivers.

For the most part, my analog tuners do next to nothing anymore. I've got a 
pcHDTV HD-2000 capture OTA HD, cable HD coming off my cable box via FireWire, 
and an Air2PC card I'm still working on (can't seem to get anything off cable 
at the moment, may just move it to OTA as well). Getting my 150 and 500 
working has mostly been just for fun! :-)

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com

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