[bulug] Re: TV tuner for Linux: HVR-950
- From: "Jimmy C. Chau" <jchau@xxxxxx>
- To: bulug-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 22:19:26 -0400
Oh, when I said I followed the instructions, I don't mean precisely. I
remember (though not specifically) a lot of deviations & trial and
error. Sorry I can't be more helpful.
-Jimmy
Jimmy C. Chau wrote:
> Lol. Forking this thread for the change of subject.
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> Alex Whittemore wrote:
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>> More importantly, however, you mean to tell me that you've gotten an
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>> HVR-950 to work under linux? HOW?! Spill it, NOW.
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> Well, at some point, it worked completely, but somehow, I lost audio &
> was never able to get it back. I believed it happened during one of
> those painful switches from analog to digital and back (which required
> me to recompile the driver & the kernel). I followed the howto for it
> from a site called Luna Park (I think it is
> <http://lunapark6.com/usb-hdtv-tuner-stick-for-windows-linux-hauppauge-wintv-hvr-950.html>),
> but I believe that's been updated many times since.
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> I recall that the ATSC worked better than NTSC (when I was able to get
> reception), but that didn't help much since there is no ATSC over BU's
> cable (only QAM, which the HVR-950 did not support, but the HVR-950Q
> does). But I wasn't able to get the higher-resolution HD streams until
> I adjusted some X settings (probably videoram? i don't remember). And
> the analog had an annoying green bar at the top with distortions near
> the edges, but I told mythtv to crop them so that I wouldn't see them.
>
> I don't have it installed anymore since I was having many problems with
> it towards the end (no audio with analog, bad reception with digital,
> glitches in MythTV that caused segments of recordings to become lost),
> it was a hassle to maintain (had to recompile it every time I did
> something to the kernel and I was spending a lot of time looking for
> solutions to the many problems that arose), and the entire setup took up
> a lot of space.
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> I believe the experimental drivers worked better than the drivers
> currently included in the kernel tree (they were merged into the tree
> some versions back).
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> One problem may be that my laptop didn't meet the minimum system
> requirements for the tuner, but then again, it worked "completely" at
> some point.
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> Alex Whittemore wrote:
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>> No, seriously, I spent most of the first semester failing to get
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>> that running, and I have a uselees, screen-less laptop to show for it.
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> How did the TV tuner make you lose your laptop screen?
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> Anyway, results varied greatly for most users.
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> Hope this helps, but it's been a while & I don't remember all of the
> details. Good luck. & if you get it to work, let me know so I can dig
> it back up.
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