[mythtvnz] Hauppauge HVR 900 tuner and Ubuntu Hardy

[Steven Ellis]

On Sun, June 8, 2008 5:54 pm, Steven Ellis wrote:
>
> On Sun, June 8, 2008 4:56 pm, Stephen Worthington wrote:
>> On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 16:34:10 +1200 (NZST), you wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>Just done an update on using the Hauppauge HVR 900 usb tuner as you can
>>>now get a pre-compiled driver for Ubuntu Hardy.
>>>
>>>http://www.mythtv.co.nz/mythtv/2008/06/08/hauppauge-hvr-900-tuner-and-ubuntu-hardy/
>>>
>>>Just need that working interlaced video support in FFMPEG for PAFF and
>>> H.264.
>>>
>>>Steve
>>
>> "Recent builds of MythTV will detect both the analogue and digital
>> tuners of the HVR 900. The device can only operate a single tuner at a
>> time, and MythTV already has the required patches to understand this."
>>
>> So you do not have to set up input groups to tell MythTV that the
>> analogue and digital tuners can not be used together?  It understands
>> that automatically?
>
> 0.20 had the code to detect this automatically, but I'm not sure if that
> has been removed and replaced by input groups in 0.21. Need to take a look
> at the code.
>

Just checked. The code was removed in 0.21 in favor of Input Groups, so
you do need to set it up manually.

Steve

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