On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 18:22 -0500, Julian TC Bui wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm a newbie when it comes to tv capturing and tv tuners. I am using linux > (I have kernel 2.6.28 on intrepid ibex ubuntu 8.10) and am in america. The > cable I wish to capture and display is unscrambled analog cable (channels 75 > and under) without using a cable box. > > I have seen some reports of success with the 1600 on linux and reports that > it doesn't work. Can someone confirm?
Yes it works. But you should obtain the latest driver as described on this page: http://www.ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Cx18 (what's in the mainline vanilla kernel right now has a few problems. Check to see if Ibex has the v1.0.4 cx18 driver though to see if you already have the latest.) Analog broadcast and cable should work as well as digital ATSC broadcast (8-VSB) and cable (QAM & 8-VSB). The first analog capture after the module is loaded will have funny audio, but every subsequent analog capture should be fine. Make sure your kernel vmalloc limit is set high enough: the CX23418 requires a large (64 MB) contiguous chunk of addresses (not system memory) to map in its registers and on board memory. > I have also seen from the hauppauge site that analog video is not currently > support. I have heard it is supported and figure the site may be out of > date. Can someone confirm this as well? That might be the HVR-1800 - different board than the HVR-1600. > Any other accounts on experiences with the 1600 would be appreciated as I > have not yet bought this card. Read the list archives of ivtv-users, ivtv-devel, video4linux-list, and linux-dvb. > Also, I know that in windows there is scheduling software and display > software. Do these exist in linux too for this hauppauge model? I use MythTV built from source - not for the faint of heart. > Please let me know. I am really interested in buying the card but have > serious doubts. If this card is not for me, recommendations for other cards > would be appreciated. In the US I don't think there's a better Hybrid PCI capture card. (I may be biased. :] Plus I like hardware vs software MPEG encoders). If I were looking to the future though, I'd look for a PCIe based card with the same features and level of linux support. PCI slots are getting hard to come by nowadays. -Andy > Thanks in advance. > > Julian _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
