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

[Steven Ellis]

On Wed, May 28, 2008 1:52 pm, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> 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.

Stephen

You might be interested to know we have working on a myPVR update that is
based on Mythbuntu that will have 0.21 support.

No ETA yet, but work is in progress.

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OpenMedia Limited - The Home of myPVR
email   - steven at openmedia.co.nz
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