I may be missing a huge part of the discussion, but i have a PVR250 running great.
unfortunately its under Mandriva and again under Xandros.
worse yet its w/ mythTV. But that should at least lead you to believe that it IS possible.
(I hope)
----- Original Message -----
From: Colin Brace <cb@xxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 12:30 pm
Subject: PVR-150 TV card woes
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying with mixed results to get a Hauppauge PVR-150 TV card
> working on my FC6 system.
>
> Neither tvtime nor kdetv support the PVR cards. Whether zapping does,
> I don't know; in any case it crashes when I try to start it.
>
> xawtv does handle PVR cards, but I can't get beyond this error message
> at startup:
>
> /dev/video1 [v4l2]: no overlay support
>
> I've googled this and found various hits, but no obvious solution.
>
> Both vlc and mplayer do work with it, and the display with the former
> is particularly fine, but neither offer a reasonable way of changing
> channels (AFAIK).
>
> At the moment, I have found a couple channels by trial and error with
> xawtv, so I start xawtv to change the channel, exit, then start
> mplayer to view it or mencoder to record it. Hardly satisfying!
>
> Maybe MythTV is the route to go, but at the moment I can't get the
> backend/mysql stuff working.
>
> Is there anyone who has gotten further than this with a Hauppauge card
> under Fedora?
>
> Thanks.
>
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> Colin Brace
> Amsterdam
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