Application for Hauppauge PVR-500

herman.viaene@thuis.be

Originally I had a very basic Hauppauge WinTV Express in my machine and
things like kdetv and xawtv worked with it, but capturing was a pain. I
could capture but after some time (10 - 15 min. sometimes) the picture got
jumpy, and I had to do capturing from VHS tapes in small bits to have
something I could work further with.

My son in law gave me a Hauppauge PVR-500 that he had laying around, and
with reading and searching on ivtv, I've got now a capturing running at
this moment from the CLI (cat /dev/video0 > some file)
But I cann't get none of the video GUI things to work on this. I read
somewhere that this is normal for kdetv and xawtv, because the card outputs
mpeg, but I didn't have any success with mplayer neither. And things like
VLC....well, I just get drowned in all the options...

Is there something simple that lets me view streams from that card?

Herman Viaene
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Wes Newell

On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:44:06 +0100, herman.viaene wrote:

> Originally I had a very basic Hauppauge WinTV Express in my machine and
> things like kdetv and xawtv worked with it, but capturing was a pain. I
> could capture but after some time (10 - 15 min. sometimes) the picture
> got jumpy, and I had to do capturing from VHS tapes in small bits to
> have something I could work further with.
>
> My son in law gave me a Hauppauge PVR-500 that he had laying around,
> and with reading and searching on ivtv, I've got now a capturing running
> at this moment from the CLI (cat /dev/video0 > some file) But I cann't
> get none of the video GUI things to work on this. I read somewhere that
> this is normal for kdetv and xawtv, because the card outputs mpeg, but I
> didn't have any success with mplayer neither. And things like
> VLC....well, I just get drowned in all the options...
>
> Is there something simple that lets me view streams from that card?
>
I'm not sure what you're trying to do but mythtv supports the pvr-500. It
isn't simple though. Freevo and vdr probably do too. If you want an
unencoded stream, then you need to turn the encoder off on the pvr-500. I
have no idea how to do that. All 6 of my tuner cards are ATSC (digital)
only. Assuming your in the US, you realize that all analog (NTSC) TV
broadcast die Feb. 2009.

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David W. Hodgins

On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:44:06 -0500, <> wrote:

> My son in law gave me a Hauppauge PVR-500 that he had laying around, and

See
for mythtv setup.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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Wes Newell

On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:44:06 +0100, herman.viaene wrote:

> Originally I had a very basic Hauppauge WinTV Express in my machine and
> things like kdetv and xawtv worked with it, but capturing was a pain. I
> could capture but after some time (10 - 15 min. sometimes) the picture
> got jumpy, and I had to do capturing from VHS tapes in small bits to
> have something I could work further with.
>
> My son in law gave me a Hauppauge PVR-500 that he had laying around,
> and with reading and searching on ivtv, I've got now a capturing running
> at this moment from the CLI (cat /dev/video0 > some file) But I cann't
> get none of the video GUI things to work on this. I read somewhere that
> this is normal for kdetv and xawtv, because the card outputs mpeg, but I
> didn't have any success with mplayer neither. And things like
> VLC....well, I just get drowned in all the options...
>
> Is there something simple that lets me view streams from that card?
>
I'm not sure what you're trying to do but mythtv supports the pvr-500. It
isn't simple though. Freevo and vdr probably do too. If you want an
unencoded stream, then you need to turn the encoder off on the pvr-500. I
have no idea how to do that. All 6 of my tuner cards are ATSC (digital)
only. Assuming your in the US, you realize that all analog (NTSC) TV
broadcast die Feb. 2009.

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My Tivo Experience
Tivo HD/S3 compared
AMD cpu help

David W. Hodgins

On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:44:06 -0500, <> wrote:

> My son in law gave me a Hauppauge PVR-500 that he had laying around, and

See
for mythtv setup.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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