On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 19:49 +0100, Darren Wilkinson wrote: > Johan wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 13:04 +0100, Darren Wilkinson wrote: > > > >> I have a WinTV Nexus-s dvb card with an onboard mpeg2 decoder which I'd > >> like to use in MythTV. The wiki > >> www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-Nexus-S says that the > >> unstable driver supports this card but I can't find anywhere else that > >> mentions this card working with ivtv. I can't get it to work myself > >> though and when searching the web nowhere else has . I've downloaded the > >> unstable drivers from www.linuxtv.org but modprobing ivtv doesn't add > >> any /dev/video* entries even though there are no error messages. > >> > > > > > >> If anyone can help me get this working or suggest another way of getting > >> mythtv to use the decoding features of this card I'd be grateful. > >> > > > > it works fine under mythtv. Using a default ubuntu kernel 2.6.22-14 > > > > uses v4l-dvb drivers, not ivtv afaik... > > > > or is that not what you meant ? > > > I mean to get the hardware mpeg2 decoding working for the card. I have > this and a budget dvb-t card and I want to be able to use the hardware > decoding on this card for both cards. Mythtv currently treats it just > like a budget card with software mpeg2 decoding.
I've seen the issue of using the decoder for other cards (MPEG2 streams) being discussed before. It's impossible to insert data in to the decoder from the PCI bus. _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
