[mythtvnz] Anyone using an HVR-900 USB tuner?

[Robin Gilks]

> On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 21:59:04 +1200, you wrote:
>
>>
>>If so does the svideo input work OK and any idea is it does hardware
>>encoding to mpeg2 as the Hauppauge info page talks about SoftPVR when it
>>gets to the analog part of the description.
>>
>>I assume the DVB-T part works OK...
>>
>>Cheers
>
> There seem to be two or three variants of the HVR-900.  Mine on my
> laptop is the second version (marked B2C0) and DVB-T does not work.
> There used to be some drivers that worked for this variant but they
> were never merged into the kernel and support has been dropped.  There
> was also some mention of someone working on this variant again
> recently, so I try new kernels occasionally to see if they work.
>
> The first version of the HVR-900 is reported to work, at least with
> DVB-T.
>
> I believe the MPEG2 support is software based.  At one time I did use
> the S-Video input to capture a couple of tapes, but IIRC I used
> Windows for that.  I captured to raw AVI format on an external eSata
> drive, then converted that to DivX, so I never tried a real time MPEG2
> capture.
>

Thanks for that - I'm not about to shell out $120 for a frame grabber then!!

Next is to look at the HVR-1900 which does have the hardware mpeg encoder
but info on whether the /whole/ card works under Linux seems to be sparse
:(

Cheers

-- 
Robin Gilks