[mythtv-users] MythTV Does Not See PVR-250 - Must Fix Before Wife Returns!

[Thomas Mashos]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Drew Tomlinson <drew at mykitchentable.net> wrote:
> I'm having trouble getting MythTV to "see" my PVR-250.  I also have a
> pcHDTV3000 card in the box which MythTV sees just fine.  Additionally,
> it sees the HDHomerun I have on my network.  It's just the PVR-250 with
> which I'm having trouble.
>
>  From what I understand, the PVR-250 should be setup as a "IVTV MPEG-2
> encoder card" but this choice is not available to me within mythtv-setup
> -> Capture Cards -> New Capture Card.
>
> Thinking that maybe this has to do with the PVR-250 not being seen by
> the kernel, I checked dmesg.  Yep, it's there:
>
> ivtv: Start initialization, version 1.4.2
> ivtv0: Initializing card 0
> ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23416 based)
> ivtv 0000:05:06.0: PCI INT A -> Link[APC3] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
> ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
> cx88/0: cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.8 loaded
> tveeprom 2-0050: Hauppauge model 32062, rev C182, serial# 7812141
> tveeprom 2-0050: tuner model is LG TAPC H791F (idx 82, type 39)
> tveeprom 2-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08)
> tveeprom 2-0050: audio processor is MSP3445 (idx 12)
> tveeprom 2-0050: decoder processor is SAA7115 (idx 19)
> tveeprom 2-0050: has no radio, has IR receiver, has no IR transmitter
> ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250
>
> What must I do to make this card available to MythTV?  My wife will
> return in a few hours and the WAF will go WAY DOWN if I don't get this
> working.  :)  That will teach me to try and upgrade...
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Drew
>
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Are you using Ubuntu 11.04 by any chance? If so, then ATM they don't
have IVTV support built in right now. That should be fixed in the next
build.

Thomas