So apparently Hauppauge ran short of their PVR-150's and started upgrading them to the WinTV-HVR-1600, the only problem is that they didn't bother telling anybody. The HVR-1600 was delivered in the PVR-150 box. I had just assumed that the hardware I installed in my machine was what stated on the box. Silly me, expecting to get what I paid for. Normally I would be all like, "Cool a free upgrade", and be on my merry way. The one snag is that there isn't Linux drivers for this particular device. So the countless hours spent installing and reinstalling IVTV, then upgrading to Feisty Herd 5 has proven to be nothing more than an exercise in futility.
On 3/5/07, Tyson Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for all the help. I will try your program out as soon as I fix > the issues I am having with my video capture card. I moved the > PVR-150 to my Xubuntu machine, but it does not seem to recognize it; > I do not have a '/dev/video0' entry. > > -Tyson > > On 3/4/07, Rob Ludwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tyson, > > > > For fun, I wrote the following program. > > > > Compile it using: > > > > gcc timed_copy.c -o timed_copy > > > > Use it like this: > > > > timed_copy <input device> <output file> <time in seconds> > > > > You can try it out with /dev/urandom like this: > > > > timed_copy /dev/urandom ~/output.dat 5 > > > > That gets you 5 seconds of pseudo random numbers. Whee! > > > > When you try this out on your PVR-150 you may want to increase > > BUFFER_SIZE. > > > > Also to make this more reliable, I would have put the write call in one > > thread and the read call in another thread, increased the buffer size to > > 1 MB or more, and passed buffers between the two threads. > > > > In that way most of the program's time would be spent blocked on the > > read() and write() reducing the chance of a buffer overrun from the > > video device. > > > > Enjoy. > > > > --R > > > > > > On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 23:31 -0500, Rob Ludwick wrote: > > > Tyson, > > > > > > There looks to be some useful information here: > > > > > > http://www.cs.duke.edu/~reynolds/pvr150/ > > > > > > It's not completely straightforward and it looks a bit on the old side, > > > but the information is mostly there.. > > > > > > Apparently at ivtvdriver.org there's a command to tune your card to > > > a channel called ivtv-tune. There's another called ivtvctl. They look > > > useful > > > > > > Also apparently you just need to know which /dev device and pull the > > > video off of it like this: > > > > > > cat /dev/video0 > /path/to/file.mpg > > > > > > It's my understanding that the output of ivtv driver is an mpeg > > > stream. > > > > > > --Rob > > > > > > > > > On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 20:48 -0500, Tyson Maxwell wrote: > > > > All, > > > > > > > > I have a Hauppauge PVR-150 and I am looking for a simple framegrabber. > > > > Eventually I may try and build a MythTV box, but for now I looking > > > > for something simple and command-line based. Basically I just want to > > > > issue a command to record a specific channel for a given duration. If > > > > anyone knows of a good tool that will do this, please let me know. > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > -Tyson > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Fwlug mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Fwlug mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Fwlug mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Fwlug mailing list [email protected] http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org
