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The following page has been changed by 134.100.12.204: http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/DocumentationPage_2fSupportedHardware The comment on the change is: Added TV-out information to WinTV PVR section, structured ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @@ -53,7 +53,11 @@ === Hauppauge WinTV-PVR Cards === -There is support for the WinTV-PVR series of cards in Freevo; the WinTV-PVR 250/350 cards have recently been getting a lot more attention. The drivers for these cards are under active development and are becoming stable, see http://ivtv.sourceforge.net . Please make sure your card and the ivtv driver are working properly before trying to use it in Freevo. That is, download and install the latest ivtv driver; you'll find information on this in the [http://ivtv.sourceforge.net/docs.html IVTV documentation] and the [http://ivtv.sourceforge.net/tiki/tiki-view_faq.php?faqId=1 IVTV FAQ]. Basically, this boils down to: +There is support for the WinTV-PVR series of cards in Freevo; the WinTV-PVR 250/350 cards have recently been getting a lot more attention. + +==== IVTV Driver ==== + +The drivers for these cards are under active development and are becoming stable, see http://ivtv.sourceforge.net . Please make sure your card and the ivtv driver are working properly before trying to use it in Freevo. That is, download and install the latest ivtv driver; you'll find information on this in the [http://ivtv.sourceforge.net/docs.html IVTV documentation] and the [http://ivtv.sourceforge.net/tiki/tiki-view_faq.php?faqId=1 IVTV FAQ]. Basically, this boils down to: * Compiling and installing the modules (i.e. make && make install) * Making sure you have the firmware for the cards in /lib/modules. There is a utility included with the driver package that will help you with this called ivtvfwextract.pl. Run it with the location of the windows driver package as its only argument (defaults to /mnt/cdrom) and it will do the rest. * Loading and testing the driver @@ -61,8 +65,12 @@ * Setting up the module(s) for autoloading on boot The MythTV site offers an excellent page that describes how to [http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-22.html#ss22.1 install a PVR-250/350 on Mandrake 9.1]. It may be helpful for other distros as well. +==== LIRC / WinTV PCR remote control ==== + After setting up the IVTV driver, you might want to set up LIRC, too. My lirc came with a suitable lircd.conf.hauppauge config file which actually contains two separate descriptions of remote controls. The second one matches my remote (that came with the PVR 350), and I offer my matching `/etc/freevo/lircrc` [attachment:_etc_freevo_lircrc_corrected as an attachment here]. - + +==== Freevo setup for IVTV ==== + In order to record using the PVR-250/350 cards with Freevo please read the IVTV section in RecordingInfo, too. In order to watch live TV with a PVR-250/350, the following 2 lines are needed in local_conf.py with older Freevo versions: @@ -81,6 +89,12 @@ group_type="ivtv", recordable=True), ]}}} + +==== TV-Out ==== + +If you want Freevo to use the WinTV PVR card's TV-out, you can use the TV-out as a standard framebuffer device for X. Once you get X working with this framebuffer device freevo works with it just like any other X display. This is explained in the [http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-index.php?page=TvOutHowto TvOutHowto page of the IVTV Wiki]. + +==== Misc. Information ==== The WinTV-PVR card appears to possibly have some minimal support in the recent BTTV 0.9.x drivers. It appears the BTTV author ported some of the old code from the http://pvr.sourceforge.net project. According to the latter site, this would allow to use standard V4L TV software (xawtv, tvtime, ...). Please add information to this wiki page if you know more about this. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click _______________________________________________ Freevo-wikilog mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-wikilog
