[mythtv-users] Hauppauge HD-PVR2 / Colossus2 support

[James Purl]

Follow-up here. I've been using my HDPVR-2 for months.  I've noticed a few
things and wonder if these are issues encountered by others: My setup is
below (*)

   1. Has anyone gotten S/PDIF (optical)*  with surround sound to work? The
   closest I've gotten is S/PDIF (optical)* with AAC encoded stereo output.
   I've recently had an HDPVR 1212 finally die (after many power supply
   replacements), so I'm in the market for either a used 1212 or perhaps a
   Colossus 2 if Optical Surround -> 5.1 AC3 is doable with either the HDPVR-2
   or the Colossus 2 (PCIe) instead. I'd like to hear if others got this
   working.  The backend in question typically is for recording movies from an
   STB (HBO, Showtime, Starz, etc.) which benefit from capturing the surround
   audio.I tried poking with the John's & Hauppauge's sources myself to
   override some the CS8416 parameters, but still only got a silent audio
   track trying to enable AC3 via SPDIF (Optical)*.
   2. I see an IR port on both my HD-PVR2 (and online specs of the Colossus
   2). Although I'm doubtful - any way to use that for blasting/transmitting?
   I have the transmitter from my dead 1212 plugged into my HDPVR-2, but using
   the HDPVR2 doesn't trip any automatic module loading like the 1212's do
   with lirc_zilog.


* -I say optical since it appears the CS8416 as used in the HD-PVR2 routes
HDMI AC3 audio over the same path internally to get it in the output file.

On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 12:49 PM James Purl <jamesp at mzrfzr.com> wrote:

> I got it to work by modifying the "verbose" and "syslog" params. The
> verbose parameter (as passed from mythbuntu's invocation of hauppauge2)
> includes a textual option while hauppauge2 was expecting an int.
>
> Attached is the output of git diff.  I'll admit that this is not the most
> elegant solution to the verbose parameter, so that might need more
> consideration.
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 2:48 PM John P Poet <jppoet at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 3:28 PM James Purl <jamesp at mzrfzr.com> wrote:
>>
>>> John,
>>>
>>> My use case is component + SPDIF w/AC-3 5.1 and I have an HD-PVR 2
>>> 157320 as well.  I am using stereo RCA audio for the time being, but are
>>> you saying the Colossus2 supports component + SPDIF (AC-3 5.1) currently?
>>> I know that you indicated on the github site that component + S/PDIF 5.1
>>> was possible once you work out how you did it before.
>>>
>>
>> I believe that getting AC-3 5.1 via HDMI will be easier with the
>> Colossus2.  Getting Component + S/PDIF may also be easier with the
>> Colossus2, and that may be why I thought I had it working and it isn't now
>> (I have been testing with the HD-PVR2).
>>
>>
>>> Also, I may have another patch for your code for use with (myth|u)buntu
>>> as integrating it with MythTV hasn't worked for me--I know at least one
>>> issue is that the default mythtv-backend invocation passes a "syslog"
>>> parameter that causes hauppauge2 to spit out the help text instead of going
>>> into mythtv ExternalRecorder mode. I was going to patch your code to
>>> accept, but silently ignore, that option for the time being. FWIW, I'm
>>> using manually-built packages based on Mythbuntu fixes/0.29 code (after
>>> pulling in a new enough commit of MythTV).
>>>
>>
>> Feel free to send me a patch for the syslog param.  I don't use that with
>> MythTV and so missed it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>>
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