[mythtv-users] Replacemnt for HDPVR

Peter Bennett pb.mythtv at gmail.com
Tue Nov 28 00:25:48 UTC 2017



On 11/27/2017 06:18 PM, John P Poet wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 3:57 PM David Engel <david at istwok.net 
> <mailto:david at istwok.net>> wrote:
>
>     On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 04:33:01PM -0600, Gerald Brandt wrote:
>     > I have two HDPVR's and two Motorola DCT-6200's. The HDPVRs seem
>     to be
>     > getting more and more finicky as the years pass. If I keep my
>     6200s, is
>     > there an alternate choice for the HDPVRs?
>
>     1. Check the power adapter and replace if needed.  The HD-PVR power
>     adapters are notorious for failing and causing sporadic issues as they
>     fail.
>
>     2. Add a fan.  Some units, particularly the earlier ones, could get
>     too warm.
>
>     3. Wait for Johm Poet to chime in here on the status of his work with
>     the HD-PVR2s
>
>
> Sigh.  I supposed I should go ahead and finish the code I mostly have 
> working for the HD-PVR2. I kinda lost interest while waiting for 
> Hauppauge to add surround sound support to their linux "driver".  I 
> probably have a few weekends worth of work to get the current 
> capabilities published.  I am unlikely to have time to work on it 
> until after the holidays.
>
> Note, though, that this is unlikely to be something that can be /just/ 
> included with MythTV, since the Hauppauge "driver" is full of 
> copyright notices from the various chip manufacturers.   To get it 
> working to the extent that I have, required patching the "driver" 
> code, so I basically will have to make that patch available, and 
> provide instructions telling people how to make it work.
>
> John
>
>

John

How about supporting something like this instead of HDPVR2? This is a 
USB HDMI capture device. There are several of them around. Some, like 
the below item,  advertise Linux support and apparently work with 
standard webcam drivers.

http://a.co/aXQAUg5

I think it would need a recorder in MythTV to encode and store as a TS file.

Peter
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