[mythtvnz] Mythbuntu Hardy packages for em28xx tuners (HVR-900)

[Stephen Worthington]

For anyone using Mythbuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron, there are now packages
available to install the drivers needed for supported em28xx chipset
based tuners:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/204578

I have a Hauppauge HVR-900 USB tuner (the newer B2C0 version) and I
had been unable to get it working on my Asus G1S notebook using the
old instructions on http://mcentral.de, but the new packages have done
the job.  I now have it to the point of being able to get Mythbuntu to
see both the analogue and DVB-T tuners and scan them and find all the
programmes being broadcast.  I still have to get the right H.264 and
AAC support before I will be able to do much more, and I have not
found the time to do that yet.

Ultimately, what I am hoping to be able to do is to update my myPVR
box to MythTV 0.21 and put the HVR-900 on there alongside the two
PVR-500s and get it to do all the recording.  Then, until full support
for the Freeview form of H.264/AAC is available, I should be able to
copy the *.ts files for the recordings over to my notebook and play
them on my TV from there using Cyberlink PowerDVD 8 under Vista.  A
bit of a tortuous process, I know, but better than doing the
recordings under Vista and GB-PVR as at present since I will be able
to use multirec to record multiple programs at once.  GB-PVR does not
support that, and I find it is rather lacking in features compared to
MythTV.