On Jul 6, 2006, at 7:43 PM, Allen J. Newton wrote: > I had forgotten that the Samsung tuners were the ones with the > problem. > > I've seen some discussion about testing the Hauppauge board with > Windows. > > Is it absolutely necessary to test a PVR-500MCE with Windows Media > Center > Edition? Or can it be tested with Windows XP Professional? I have > the > latter, but not the former.
They are basically the same thing. I've never had MCE, but have tested my PVR card in XP Pro. > > However, I can't figure out how to install the drivers from the > installation > CD -- there doesn't seem to be any install script, WinXP "finds" > the devices > without asking for drivers, and if I remove them and have it > rediscover them, > it won't find the drivers on the CD. Thats news to me. The CD should have an install program that installs drivers and a player app. Looking on the web site. I don't see that stuff in the PVR500 section, but you might try the installs on the PVR150 page. Keith C > > Can anyone give me a clue, here? It would be much appreciated. > > I'd like to figure out for sure if I've got a bad board before I > RMA it to > Hauppauge. > > Thanks. > > Previously I wrote: >> Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 09:20:27 -0600 >> Subject: Hauppauge PVR-500MCE 1st tuner not working well > >> Okay, first time I guess I included too MUCH info. I've trimmed >> down the >> dmesg output to exclude most of the (repetitive) SElinux audit >> messages. >> >> I asked: >> >> I have just installed FC5 on a machine with a Gigabyte motherboard >> (no Via >> issues) and AMD Athlon XP 2200+. This machine has an older >> Hauppauge WinTV >> MJPeg capture card, and Hauppauge PVR-500MCE and a pcHDTV HD3000. >> >> I did a full update on all packages yesterday, and then afterward >> installed >> the following: >> [snip] >> ===================================================================== >> ====== >> >> I have also attached the dmesg and lspci output to this message. >> >> Things generally seem to work, I got xine and related packages >> from livna, and >> ivtv and related packages from atRPMS. >> >> Presently, I can tune both tuners on the PVR-500MCE, the devices are >> recognized at /dev/video2 and /dev/video3. >> >> cat /dev/video3 > /tmp/test1.mpg produces good output on all >> channels tested >> >> cat /dev/video2 > /tmp/test2.mpg produces static-y video and audio >> on all >> channels tested. >> >> Do I have a bad board? I bought this a few months ago for a >> machine which I'm >> just now getting around to configuring as a PVR. If the board is >> bad, will >> Hauppauge warranty it? >> >> What I'm hoping is that I've somehow just misconfigured it, or >> perhaps I need >> to apply a patch (or possibly downgrade my ivtv driver? It >> appears to be the >> most recent released). >> >> Any help on this would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! > > -- > Allen J. Newton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
