Stephen<br><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">I know that the PVR-150 board is
working correctly. I use swappable hard disk's for the MythBuntu
programme this allows me to keep my original 0.23 on one disk and
upgrade to 0.25 on another disk a NEW INSTALLATION. This gives me the
ability to go back to the original installation. Under 0.23 the
PVR-150 is working correctly. All the data is separate from these
disks. Under 0.25 the Probed infor: is correct “Hauppauge WinTV
PVR-150 [intv]”.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">I do have a satellite card also
installed for FreeView and EPGSnoop (So that I can get the SKY EPG).
The card and EPGSnoop is working correctly under 0.25.
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">My problem seems to be that the IVTV
MPEG-2 encoder card has been remover with the closest being MPEG-2
encoder card. But there is no way to tell it how the SKY is
connected. With the IVTV card it connects to the “Default input:
Composite 1”. Without a way of telling how the SKY box is connected
I can see no way of it working. I have tried selecting a SKY channel
and get a blank screen.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">I note you comment about the firmware.
But even if I copy the firmware from 0.23 to 0.24 there would not be
a way to tell the programme that the SKY is connected to the
composite input as the Firmware will not change the graphical input
screen in the backend setup.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">I did look at My Openbox S10 a couple
of months ago. But my SKY card thing is too old to work with it. I
have been looking at some way of getting a new card from SKY.
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm"><a name="firstHeading"></a>Thank you
for the comments about sasc-ng but it looks to complex. I am now
thinking of purchasing a Hauppauge HD-PVR about $300 as it looks like
it is supported. It is a new USB High Definition input device. It
seems to be listed as one of the options in the Back-end.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">Thanks again</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">Tim</p>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Stephen Worthington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz" target="_blank">stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 17:40:14 +1200, you wrote:<br>
<br>
>I use Mythbuntu – I have been thinking for some time of upgrading from<br>
>mythtv 0.23 to 0.25 using Mythbuntu 12.04. I have spent the day working on<br>
>it just to find that Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 [ivtv] which I have used for<br>
>years is not supported! I had read the release notes carefully before<br>
>starting the upgrade but there was no mention of this change – that I could<br>
>see. I use the PVR-150 only for the video input from my SKY box.<br>
><br>
> I have no idea how to resolve this problem – any suggestions – maybe USB<br>
>video capture?<br>
><br>
>Please be specific as I new to this.<br>
><br>
>Tim<br>
<br>
</div></div>Since my mother's MythTV box uses a PVR-150 for recording FM radio and<br>
I need to upgrade her to 0.25 soon, I am very interested in this<br>
problem. And like you I have a PVR-500 in my MythTV box for recording<br>
Sky. A PVR-500 is basically just a dual PVR-150.<br>
<br>
I can not boot my Mythbuntu 12.04 test partition just at the moment as<br>
it is on the production box, but looking at the logs from the last<br>
time I booted it, I can see the usual things for my PVR-500 card, so<br>
the PVR-500 seems to be supported. I would be very surprised if it<br>
was supported and the PVR-150 was not.<br>
<br>
So, other than it not working in MythTV, what causes you to think the<br>
PVR-150 is not supported? Do you see the /dev/video0, /dev/video24<br>
and /dev/video32 devices for the PVR-150? Is /dev/radio0 there<br>
(presuming your PVR-150 has the FM radio option)?<br>
<br>
How are you setting up your 0.25 system? Is it an upgrade of your<br>
existing boot partition, or a new install? If it is a new install, it<br>
may not have the necessary firmware files installed in /lib/firmware.<br>
It is so long ago that I set up my PVR-500 that I do not remember the<br>
file names, but they should be able to be found on a web search, or<br>
may be listed in messages in your boot logs (/var/log/dmesg,<br>
/var/log/kern.log, and dmesg command output). You could also compare<br>
the working /lib/firmware directory against the not working one to see<br>
what may be missing.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
As to alternatives for recording Sky, there are no other easy ones<br>
that I know of. There are very few analogue cards with S-Video inputs<br>
and hardware MPEG encoding like the PVR-150 and PVR-500. I do not<br>
know of any USB ones, and virtually all analogue hardware is out of<br>
production now anyway. If your CPU is fast enough, it may be able to<br>
do the MPEG encoding from raw video using an analogue card without a<br>
hardware MPEG encoder. But that is a fraught process as the CPU must<br>
not be switched away from the encoding job for very long or you start<br>
to lose blocks of frames from the recording. I think my new<br>
motherboard could do the job, as it has a 3.2 GHz quad core processor<br>
and 8 Gibytes of RAM, so it could just dedicate a core to the job. But<br>
I would want to experiment carefully to make sure that there were no<br>
lost frames happening.<br>
<br>
Or you could install a card reader in your MythTV box for your Sky<br>
card, or use box like my Openbox S10 satellite receiver to hold the<br>
Sky card and act as a card server:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.yhdigital.co.nz/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=36" target="_blank">http://www.yhdigital.co.nz/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=36</a><br>
<br>
You can then put a DVB-S2 card in your MythTV box and use sasc-ng to<br>
get keys from the Sky card and decode the Sky channels so that they<br>
can be recorded much as normal DVB-S and DVB-S2 satellite channels<br>
can. This allows full digital recordings of Sky, like the MySky boxes<br>
do, including HD recordings. I have this working on an experimental<br>
basis. The problem with this setup is that the Sky card seems to need<br>
to be in a real Sky decoder for a few hours once a month or so for its<br>
internal keys to be updated. But I have not got to that point yet as<br>
my experiments with this have only been for a few hours at a time.<br>
<br>
Take a look at this page (Italian):<br>
<br>
<a href="http://forum.ubuntu-it.org/viewtopic.php?t=460152" target="_blank">http://forum.ubuntu-it.org/viewtopic.php?t=460152</a><br>
<br>
and its Google translation from Italian:<br>
<br>
<br>
<a href="http://translate.google.co.nz/translate?sl=it&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fforum.ubuntu-it.org%2Fviewtopic.php%3Ft%3D460152" target="_blank">http://translate.google.co.nz/translate?sl=it&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fforum.ubuntu-it.org%2Fviewtopic.php%3Ft%3D460152</a><br>
<br>
for how to set this up. I have it working using a TBS 5922 DVB-S2 USB<br>
receiver:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.tbsdtv.com/products/tbs5922-dvb-s2-tv-tuner-usb.html" target="_blank">http://www.tbsdtv.com/products/tbs5922-dvb-s2-tv-tuner-usb.html</a><br>
<br>
which I bought from:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.buydvb.net" target="_blank">http://www.buydvb.net</a><br>
<br>
I recommend using this for sasc-ng, as it comes with full Linux driver<br>
support, done by compiling drivers they provide from source code. That<br>
allows me to do the necessary patches for sasc-ng support in the TBS<br>
driver compile process, rather than having to build a complete custom<br>
kernel.<br>
<br>
It is possible with sasc-ng to have multiple DVB-S/DVB-S2 cards in<br>
multiple boxes all using the one card server and one Sky card, so you<br>
can record multiple Sky channels at once.<br>
<br>
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