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

[Stephen Worthington]

On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:42:45 +1200, you wrote:

>
>> 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

The cards with MPEG2 hardware that I know do work are the old PVR-150
and PVR-500 cards.  But they do not do DVB-T.  And they are PCI, so
that does not help you if you need USB.

With the HVR-1900, it seems MPEG2 just works, and I ran across this
thread which might have what you need to be sure DVB-T will work,
whichever variant of the HVR-1900 you wind up with:

  http://www.mail-archive.com/pvrusb2@isely.net/msg01754.html