[mythtv-users] What is the status of Hauppauge HD-PVR for Mythtv

[Axel Thimm]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 09:54:01AM -0700, JS Boyd wrote:
> HD-PVR support is in the Development branch of MythTV 0.22. This future
> release is in continuing development and not yet fully functional or stable.
>
> HD-PVR support is not in the current MythTV stable release: 0.21-fixes.
>
> However, various parties have backported HD-PVR capabilities into the
> 0.21-fixes version of MythTV. BUT these modifications are completely
> unsupported: The core MythTV developers will ignore any pleas for
> support or fixes to anything broken by adding an HD-PVR to 0.21-fixes.
> So you are completely on your own and no upgrade path from a patched
> 0.21-fixes+HDPVR to the next 0.22 release will be provided.
>
> You must patch, compile and build your own RPMS or just build from source.
>
> Now after all the disclaimers I can report that it has been done and
> that it works very well.

Fedora (or RHEL5/CentOS5) packages for 0.22 are here:

http://atrpms.net/name/mythtv-0.22/

They are marked bleeding and are intended for people that will dive
into svn/trunk if something breaks to be able to make proper reports to
the developers as outlined on mythtv.org.

They work well, and power users use them in production, but never
forget it is not release code!

> Basic instructions are here:
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1014513
>
> JSB.
>
> John Nissley wrote:
>> I am just about ready to get an HD-PVR since it appears that many of  
>> the issues have been worked out according to what I am reading in the  
>> archives.  I always wait for the complied version so that I can just  
>> do a yum upgrade in fedora to install the stable fixes.  Wife and kids  
>> get very cranky if things are not working.  I did a version check on  
>> my currently running mythtv backend and did not see anything in the  
>> "options compiled in" section that would lead me to believe that the  
>> HD-PVR support is compiled in.
>>  My question is where I can find out if the HD-PVR is considered stable 
>> yet and how to tell if it is included in the build I get from atrpms. 
>> If not included I assume I would need to compile my own and if so is it 
>> stable enough to make compiling my own an acceptable path to take?
>>  Thanks in advance for the insight.  The information I receive here is  
>> always very helpful.

-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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