[mythtvnz] Hauppauge HVR4000 - Sat + Analog working.

[Steven Ellis]

Daniel Williams wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Just thought I would fill you in on my success on getting my HVR4000 
> working with both satellite, and analog at the same time.
>
> There appears to be a bug in the drivers, so it doesn't initialise quite 
> right.  The Sat side of the world works, but the analog wouldn't.
> To fix I run the following commands
>   rmmod cx88-dvb
>   rmmod cx88-alsa cx8800 cx8802
>   sleep 5;
>   modprobe cx88-dvb;
>   sleep 2;
>   modprobe cx8800
>   modprobe cx88-alsa
>   sleep 2
>
> After that, both the Sat and the Analog will both tune.  I've added to 
> my mythbackend startup script to ensure it runs before myth starts.
>
> General Comments:
> Card co-exists fine with a Skystar 2, and a SAA7134 based card (software 
> capture).  
> Having the system capture 4 channels at once (2 HW mpeg, 2 Software 
> Mpeg4) leaves about 15% CPU idle on an AMD Sempron 3300+.
>   
Hmmm. So the Analogue side of the HVR4000 doesn't have an MPEG-2 encoder
then?

Damn.. That is a real pain. If we are going to deal with HD H264 720p
playback of DTT we need a HW analogue card for Sky/UHF or there isn't
much grunt left.

Steve

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