[mythtvnz] Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 [ivtv] not supported in 0.25

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Stephen Worthington
<stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 17:40:14 +1200, you wrote:
>
>>I use Mythbuntu – I have been thinking for some time of upgrading from
>>mythtv 0.23 to 0.25 using Mythbuntu 12.04. I have spent the day working on
>>it just to find that Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 [ivtv] which I have used for
>>years is not supported! I had read the release notes carefully before
>>starting the upgrade but there was no mention of this change – that I could
>>see. I use the PVR-150 only for the video input from my SKY box.
>>
>> I have no idea how to resolve this problem – any suggestions – maybe USB
>>video capture?
>>
>>Please be specific as I new to this.
>>
>>Tim
>
> Since my mother's MythTV box uses a PVR-150 for recording FM radio and
> I need to upgrade her to 0.25 soon, I am very interested in this
> problem.  And like you I have a PVR-500 in my MythTV box for recording
> Sky.  A PVR-500 is basically just a dual PVR-150.
>
> I can not boot my Mythbuntu 12.04 test partition just at the moment as
> it is on the production box, but looking at the logs from the last
> time I booted it, I can see the usual things for my PVR-500 card, so
> the PVR-500 seems to be supported.  I would be very surprised if it
> was supported and the PVR-150 was not.
>
> So, other than it not working in MythTV, what causes you to think the
> PVR-150 is not supported?  Do you see the /dev/video0, /dev/video24
> and /dev/video32 devices for the PVR-150?  Is /dev/radio0 there
> (presuming your PVR-150 has the FM radio option)?
>
> How are you setting up your 0.25 system?  Is it an upgrade of your
> existing boot partition, or a new install?  If it is a new install, it
> may not have the necessary firmware files installed in /lib/firmware.
> It is so long ago that I set up my PVR-500 that I do not remember the
> file names, but they should be able to be found on a web search, or
> may be listed in messages in your boot logs (/var/log/dmesg,
> /var/log/kern.log, and dmesg command output).  You could also compare
> the working /lib/firmware directory against the not working one to see
> what may be missing.
>
>
>
> As to alternatives for recording Sky, there are no other easy ones
> that I know of.  There are very few analogue cards with S-Video inputs
> and hardware MPEG encoding like the PVR-150 and PVR-500.  I do not
> know of any USB ones, and virtually all analogue hardware is out of
> production now anyway.

HDPVR?