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

[Stephen Worthington]

On Wed, 28 May 2008 14:14:46 +1200 (NZST), you wrote:

>
>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.
>

That sounds like what I need.  I can do beta testing if you like - I
have an external terabyte drive I can use to install a test system to,
and to backup the existing system.