Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250
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Usage Information |
- Manufacturer info: http://www.hauppauge.com/html/wintvpvr250_datasheet.htm
- This card is automatically detected by LinuxMCE with the MythTV backend and is easily setup via the Setup Wizard
- Using VDR as the PVR backend this box is currently NOT supported
Contents
WinTV-PVR-250 includes:
- 125 channel cable ready TV tuner
- Composite/s-video input to connect to VCR or camcorders
- High quality MPEG1/MPEG2 video and audio encoder
- dbx-TV stereo decoder (Nicam stereo decoder in Europe)
- IR remote control
The WinTV-PVR-250's TV tuner and S-Video/composite video inputs are for either PAL or NTSC.
MPEG record specifications:
- MPEG1 recording at 1150K bits/sec (Video CD data rate)
- MPEG2 record datarates:
- 2MBit/sec, 4MBit/sec, 6Mbit/sec, 8Mbit/sec, 12Mbit/sec.
- Selections for DVD Standard play (8MBitsec), DVD Long Play (4MBit/sec) and DVD Extra Long Play (2MBit/sec)
- NTSC format* at 29.97fps: Full D1: 720x480, MPEG1: 352x240
- PAL format* at 25fps: Full D1: 720x576, MPEG1: 352x288
- Audio capture formats: 32/44.1/48 KHz, 16bit stereo, 192/224/384Kbits/sec
- Chroma sampling: YUV 4:2:0
- Video file format: .MPG
- MPEG file tested compatible with: MediaStudio 6.0, MyDVD and DVD MovieFactory DVD authoring applications
System Requirements:
- Processor requirements:
- Pentium® II processor 733MHz or faster for TV pause with full screen playback
- Free PCI slot
- Sound card
- DVD or CD-RW writer (optional for burning DVDs or Video CD’s)
- VGA card (PCI or AGP) which supports video overlay (NVidia, S3, ATI, etc.)
Troubleshooting
- Currently the ivtv-firmware packages are not being installed by default along with the other ivtv packages, which means that the card is not initialized properly. The fix is simple: Alt-Ctrl-2 into a session and issue the following commands:
apt-get install ivtv-firmware rmmod ivtv modprobe ivtv
This should give you a working card
- This issue has been corrected according to the following: http://mantis.linuxmce.org/view.php?id=3521, If someone can confirm then please remove.