Johan wrote: > On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 19:49 +0100, Darren Wilkinson wrote: >> Johan wrote: >>> On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 13:04 +0100, Darren Wilkinson wrote: >>> >>>> I have a WinTV Nexus-s dvb card with an onboard mpeg2 decoder which I'd >>>> like to use in MythTV. The wiki >>>> www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-Nexus-S says that the >>>> unstable driver supports this card but I can't find anywhere else that >>>> mentions this card working with ivtv. I can't get it to work myself >>>> though and when searching the web nowhere else has . I've downloaded the >>>> unstable drivers from www.linuxtv.org but modprobing ivtv doesn't add >>>> any /dev/video* entries even though there are no error messages. >>>> >>> >>>> If anyone can help me get this working or suggest another way of getting >>>> mythtv to use the decoding features of this card I'd be grateful. >>>> >>> it works fine under mythtv. Using a default ubuntu kernel 2.6.22-14 >>> >>> uses v4l-dvb drivers, not ivtv afaik... >>> >>> or is that not what you meant ? >>> >> I mean to get the hardware mpeg2 decoding working for the card. I have >> this and a budget dvb-t card and I want to be able to use the hardware >> decoding on this card for both cards. Mythtv currently treats it just >> like a budget card with software mpeg2 decoding. > > I've seen the issue of using the decoder for other cards (MPEG2 streams) > being discussed before. It's impossible to insert data in to the decoder > from the PCI bus. > Can you elaborate? Using vdr, which *only* does the hardware decoding and only works with the nexus decoders, both pre-recorded mpegs and streams from budget cards can be routed through the hardware decoder. Also it looks like the above mythtv wiki page I linked to might need correcting.
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