Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 18:49, 12 November 2010

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Usage Information

Functionally, the "PVR USB2" device is very similar to Hauppauge's line of "PVR-XXX" PCI based tuner cards - except this device uses USB instead of PCI which makes it suitable for laptop, xbox, or embedded device applications where there would otherwise not be a PCI slot available.

Manufacturer info: http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvrusb2.html
This device is compatible with LinuxMCE running with MythTV as the PVR backend.
- Under Mythtv-setup you will need to select a new capture card and select the PVR150 option
Using VDR as the PVR backend this box is currently NOT supported

WinTV-PVR-USB2 includes:

125 channel cable ready TV tuner for TV in a window (or full screen). Surf the net while you watch TV on your PC screen!
No need to open your PC: works best with USB 2.0. Will also work with USB 1.1.
Composite/S-Video and audio inputs to connect to VCR, camcorders or satellite receivers.
Built-in hardware MPEG-2 encoder.
- Record TV or videos to disk using from 1-2 Gigabytes of disk space per hour of recorded video. While recording, the WinTV-PVRs' hardware MPEG encoder does all the work, so your PC continues to run at full speed.
- Over USB 2.0, the WInTV-PVR-USB2 can record at up to 12MBits/sec. On USB 1.1, recording is limited to 6MBits/ec.

The WinTV-PVR-USB2's TV tuner and S-Video/composite video inputs are for either PAL or NTSC.

System Requirements:

Pentium® III processor 733MHz or faster, 128MB RAM and 10GB disk drive minimum recommended
Available USB 2.0 or 1.1 port (works faster on USB 2.0)
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.)

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 * 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.