[mythtv-users] Open Source Linux driver for Hauppauge HD PVR 2 (1080p over HDMI) released!

[John P Poet]

On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 8:11 AM, Paul Harrison <mythtv at sky.com> wrote:

>
> On 03/03/15 22:06, Paul Harrison wrote:
>
>>
>> On 02/03/15 18:37, Full Name wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Hauppauge has released an open source Linux driver for its HD PVR 2
>>> model 1512, capable of capturing a 1080p video stream over HDMI.
>>>
>>> ftp://ftp.hauppauge.com/Support/Test/Lin/hauppauge_driver_src_ver5.tgz
>>>
>>> This is the only personal video recorder on the market that can capture
>>> full HD video at 30 fps (1080p30) over HDMI and that has an open source
>>> Linux driver.
>>>
>>> It would be great to have this driver merged upstream so that it works
>>> with Linux out of the box. Could anyone ask the kernel developers on the
>>> linux-media list (http://www.linuxtv.org/lists.php) if they would be
>>> interested in porting it?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Bill
>>>
>>>
>> So has any HD PVR 2 owner tried this yet? I don't own one but curious to
>> know if it works.
>>
>> It compiled OK here once I made the rebuild.sh executable and
>> HDPVR2-testApp -h works but that is as far as I can go.
>>
>> Paul H.
>>
>
> Well I got myself a HD PVR 2 Gaming Edition and can confirm the driver
> works.
>
> It's clearly a leak of the alpha driver since some things are clearly not
> finished or tested and the debugging is very verbose. It's easy to get it
> to segfault since many error conditions aren't checked - for example
> passing a filename of a file that isn't writeable will segfault the test
> app.
>
> A couple of things that had me puzzled you need vim installed to get it to
> compile since the build uses the xxd utility which on my Gentoo system is
> provided by app-editors/vim-core. Second it seems to capture from the HDMI
> port you need both the input and output HDMI connectors on the HD PVR2
> connected to something otherwise the test app fails with a No input
> connected error. Even with it connected the pass through doesn't seem to
> work but the capture does work.


I will happily add the necessary bits to Myth to get this working, but it
sounds like I should wait a while before splurging on a HD PVR2.  I did
email Hauppauge support asking about the driver, and they simply responded
that it is still in "beta", with no offer to supply me with an "official"
copy.

My HD PVR1 units have worked well, but I do get a couple of recording
failures each month.  It would be nice if the HD PVR2 works well.


John
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