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schloer.jason at tangoinc

Dec 2, 2003, 8:16 AM

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Avermedia works

So I got the Avermedia card working last night, two of them to be exact. The
picture quality looks just fine to me. I know some people have complained,
but it looks better than what I was getting with my tv wonder VE, and I
haven't even played with the color/picture controls at all yet. Anyway, I'm
now enjoying being able to record more than one show at a time. It's very
nice to have that capability finally. I'll probably add the pcHDTV card back
in soon to see if I can get them playing nicely. Then I may throw the VE
back in just for grins, but I doubt it. Causes too many problems using the
line in for audio. Maybe when I go to the true backend/frontend setup..

For those of you trying to get it to work, I did have trouble with
hauppauge's newest firmware. I had to use the pvr250_17_21226.exe driver
instead. Switching to that made everything work fine. You should be able to
download it from hauppauge's site, just find the link for the newest driver
and replace the filename with the one I just mentioned.

Anyway, I do have one problem that you all may know the answer to quickly. I
can record multiple shows at a time now problem, and I can watch the feeds
with mplayer easily. However, when I try to watch live Tv it plays for 2 or
3 seconds and then freezes, it sometimes comes back for another second and
then it's dead for good. If I instead schedule a recording and watch it
concurrently it has no trouble at all. Any help would be greatly
appreciated. Can't wait to ply with it some more. Thanks in advance.

-Jason Schloer

hogue at cs

Dec 5, 2003, 9:41 AM

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Re: Avermedia works [In reply to]

Hi,

> For those of you trying to get it to work, I did have trouble with
> hauppauge's newest firmware. I had to use the pvr250_17_21226.exe driver
> instead. Switching to that made everything work fine. You should be able to
> download it from hauppauge's site, just find the link for the newest driver
> and replace the filename with the one I just mentioned.

Just wondering, so do you have to upgrade the firmware in the Avermedia
M179 on windows in order to make it work under linux?

-- Andrew

sblomfi at Cavps

Dec 5, 2003, 9:55 AM

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RE: Avermedia works [In reply to]

No.

Just use the firmware given as an example in the RH9 guide w/ATRPMS on
pvrhw.goldfish.org

The ivtv driver will use it, you do not need to apply it as such.

Have a look at this guide, it is excellent, and will clear up a lot of
your questions.

I know you have the M179, but the procedure is 100% the same for the
PVR-x50 series as the M179 (trust me, I have two M179's).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Hogue [mailto:hogue [at] cs]
> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 10:42 AM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Avermedia works
>
>
> Hi,
>
> > For those of you trying to get it to work, I did have trouble with
> > hauppauge's newest firmware. I had to use the
> pvr250_17_21226.exe driver
> > instead. Switching to that made everything work fine. You
> should be able to
> > download it from hauppauge's site, just find the link for
> the newest driver
> > and replace the filename with the one I just mentioned.
>
> Just wondering, so do you have to upgrade the firmware in the
> Avermedia
> M179 on windows in order to make it work under linux?
>
> -- Andrew
>
>

Oberman at BodyMedia

Dec 5, 2003, 11:25 AM

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RE: Avermedia works [In reply to]

I have the m179 to the point where I can:
cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg
and see video with sound.

But, I can't get mythtv to work quite yet. For those of you who have the
m179 working, anything special to get it working in mythtv? Any particular
encoder settings (stream type, resolution, etc)? I'm running vanilla
ATRPMS, except ivtv which is CVS + avermedia patch.

william

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Blomfield [mailto:sblomfi [at] Cavps]
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 8:55 AM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Avermedia works

No.

Just use the firmware given as an example in the RH9 guide w/ATRPMS on
pvrhw.goldfish.org

The ivtv driver will use it, you do not need to apply it as such.

Have a look at this guide, it is excellent, and will clear up a lot of
your questions.

I know you have the M179, but the procedure is 100% the same for the
PVR-x50 series as the M179 (trust me, I have two M179's).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Hogue [mailto:hogue [at] cs]
> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 10:42 AM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Avermedia works
>
>
> Hi,
>
> > For those of you trying to get it to work, I did have trouble with
> > hauppauge's newest firmware. I had to use the
> pvr250_17_21226.exe driver
> > instead. Switching to that made everything work fine. You
> should be able to
> > download it from hauppauge's site, just find the link for
> the newest driver
> > and replace the filename with the one I just mentioned.
>
> Just wondering, so do you have to upgrade the firmware in the
> Avermedia
> M179 on windows in order to make it work under linux?
>
> -- Andrew
>
>

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