[mythtvnz] HVR-4000 Installed !

[Dr. David J. Knowles]

I don't think that the HVR-4000 drivers appear until 2.6.28. 8.04 is not
recent enough for the drivers to be included. You can look at the dmesg
output to determine if the card is recognised.

If not they you will have to get the latest DVB source and compile it on
your computer.

Have a look at this link

http://www.eurocardsharing.com/f273/howto-getting-hvr-4000-nova-hd-cards-working-linux-using-s2api-105681

With respect to Freeview the latest version of MythTV with local patches
is required to read the data which is transmitted in NZ. The original
MythTV code was patched by Paul Kendell and changed again by Jean-Yves
Avenard to support using NVidia cards to help decode the streams which
require very high CPU's otherwise.

Using NVidia cards of the right type (basically Series 8 and 9) an
Athlon x2 64 4200 will play back the streams.

I have had trouble finding a program under Microsoft which will play the
streams. Your mileage may vary. The sound usually does not play.

David

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Hayden Barker wrote:
> Hi There,
>
> I am now the owner of a HVR-4000 capture card c/o BDT clearance sales.
> I already have been using my PVR-150 with good success, and have built
> a machine that works well for my father based on a PVR-500 (Dual
> Tuner).
>
> I have gone through all the steps and hoops to get the card to be
> recognized on Ubuntu(8.04) and can see the DVB-T, DVB-S, and analogue
> inputs. I don't have a sky dish installed on the house I have
> currently and was hoping to get some Terrestrial channels with the new
> card. If I can't that's cool I will just run dual tuner free to air.
>
> I have done some searching but am quite confused as to what has
> happened. Looks like I may need to add some patches or something to
> work with NZ FreeView ?
>
> I plugged the card into another PC (Windows) and can see the DVB-T
> signals and channels using GBPVR although my computer is far to slow
> to look at HD H.264 content.
>
> I was thinking that as my backend server won't have the grunt to play
> HD content perhaps I could have the backend record the program and
> then play it on a networked pc ?
>
> Thoughts and suggestions are appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hayden
>
>