[mythtv-users] Hauppauge WinTV-quadHD question

[James Abernathy]

On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 10:19 AM Mike Bibbings <mike.bibbings at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Jim,
>
> I have also used the hauppage kernel ppa in the past, but hauppauge have
> done a pretty good job at getting most of their changes into the V4L
> subsystem used in later kernels (I wish other suppliers e.g. TBS did this).
>
> When I upgraded from Xubuntu 16.04  to Xubuntu 18.04 (via clean install,
> not in-place upgrade)  and found my QuadHD card worked with mythtv, I
> just kept the Ubuntu kernel.
>
> The main advantage of the happauge ppa is that it is kept up to date
> with changes that hauppauge may make to their product lines e.g. new
> demod chip will get support much earlier than in Ubuntu.
>
> You are correct in that the firmware is not needed to the USA version
> (atsc) of the card.
>
>
> Mike
>
>
> Mike,

Since my QuadHD is from a 2019-02-19 order I did, I'm guessing it's old
enough to work with the latest Ubuntu 20.04.1 kernel 5.4.0. I'll try
picking the default Ubuntu kernel at boot and see.

If that works, I hope just uninstalling the Hauppauge stuff will go
smoothly.

Jim A
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