[mythtv-users] Fwd: Re: Hauppauge HD-PVR2 / Colossus2 support

[John Hoyt]

On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 1:28 PM John P Poet <jppoet at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> For those of you interested but not tracking changes @
> https://github.com/jpoet/HauppaugeUSB , a few HDMI related issues have
> been fixed:
>
>    - Interlaced fields are now in the correct order
>    - AC3 codec works
>
> My first generation HD-PVR devices finally bit the dust, so I have put my
> Colossus2 and HD-PVR2 into production.  Picture quality is better, and
> reliability is higher.  The very first time I try to capture after a
> reboot, it almost always fails, but after that, the captures are solid.
>
> MythTV master (which will be v30 by the end of January) has some
> improvements in the API used to communicate with "external" recorders.  It
> is working very well for me.
>
>
> John
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John, thank you for putting work into this and getting this up and
running.  I picked up a Colossus2 today and am looking forward to tinkering
with it to get it up and running.

Are there any initial setup issues in Ubuntu that you are aware of or are
the instructions on your github site pretty much all you need?

Thanks again!
~John
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