[mythtv-users] Hauppauge WinTV 1250 not working

[Raymond Wagner]

(In the US) Cable providers are required by law to provide the local 
broadcast channels unencrypted over their system.  Some people get 
lucky, and get cable channels unencrypted as well, most people only get 
the local broadcast channels.  Also, when you do a channel scan, you may 
find some spurious, unnamed channels.  Video-On-Demand is usually sent 
unencrypted, and allocated as needed.  If you scan while someone in your 
local area is using one of those channels, you will have access to it.

The 1250 is a hybrid tuner, with an analog framegrabber.  You probably 
don't even want to mess with the analog side.  The drivers for the 
digital side were added to the kernel in 2.6.24.  Anything more recent 
than that and the digital (DVB) portion should 'just work'.  I didn't 
have to do anything special to get my card recognized and working with 
mythtv.

The built in channel scanner in mythtv does not like multiprocessor 
machines.  If you have one, you may have to mess with the core affinity 
when running mythtv-setup to get the card scanned properly.

Paulin wrote:
> Really...I thought that I read they were currently sending both out 
> (Analog/Digital) in preparation for the switch in Feb.   The 
> only digital channels I shouldn't get are the non-free ones.  
>
> Thanks for the info.  I'll have to do some more digging then or just 
> wait till Feb when they switch.
>
> steve
>
> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom at shaw.ca 
> <mailto:tfjellstrom at shaw.ca>> wrote:
>
>     On Friday 31 October 2008, Paulin wrote:
>     > Hello everyone,
>     > Well I got my myth box up and working (mostly).  I can't seem to
>     get the
>     > Hauppauge WinTV 1250 card working.  I don't get a picture/signal.
>     >
>     > I have Comcast and I believe I should be getting a digital
>     signal (basic
>     > cable service only and no box).
>
>     From what I understand, regular cable with no box is pure analog,
>     you get no
>     access to the digital content at all (if you're not paying for
>     digital cable,
>     they are likely to have it filtered out)
>
>     So what you need to try is to connect to the analog tuner if the
>     1250 has one,
>     and hopefully the drivers for the 1250 fully support analog (I
>     hear some of
>     the HVRs have issues with analog)
>
>     > Anyone using the 1250 card successfully if you could post your cards
>     > configuration that would be greatly appreciated.  Not sure what
>     I should be
>     > using V4L or DVT, etc
>     >
>     > Thanks
>     > steve
>
>
>     --
>     Thomas Fjellstrom
>     tfjellstrom at shaw.ca <mailto:tfjellstrom at shaw.ca>
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