The PVR-500mce is a dual tuner card that only requires one coax cable in and then splits it to the two tuners. You want to make sure that you have the the 0.3 version of the ivtv driver which can be found here, http://www.ivtv.tv/releases/ivtv-0.3. I used the ivtv-0.3.8.tar.gz version and it worked fine for me. This will get you pictures on both inputs but no sound. To get the sound working you have to update the firmware with this link from Hauppauge's website. Then update the firmware by doing the following:
mkdir ~/pvrfirmwareThen just make sure that you have the proper /etc/modprobe.conf file. Below is what mine looks like. I also have a PVR-250 card which is 81-0.
unzip mce_cd_v27a.zip -d ~/pvrfirmware
cp ~/pvrfirmware/WinTV-PVR-150500MCE_2_0_30_23074_WHQL/HcwMakoA.ROM /lib/modules
cp ~/pvrfirmware/WinTV-PVR-150500MCE_2_0_30_23074_WHQL/HcwFalcn.rom /lib/modules
ln -sf /lib/modules/HcwFalcn.rom /lib/modules/ivtv-fw-enc.bin
# ivtv modules setup
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
alias char-major-81-1 ivtv
alias char-major-81-2 ivtv
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
alias char-major-81-1 ivtv
alias char-major-81-2 ivtv
Now you need to power off your computer and pull the power cable from the computer to do a hard power off for at least 10 seconds. Then power on your computer which will load the new ivtv modules. You can verify that everything is working fine by checking the end of /var/log/messages. If there is any problems you need to look at everything between the ----- ivtv start ------- and ------ ivtv end ------ lines. Once the power up is completed you need to run mythtvsetup to setup your two new inputs. I choose to keep all my current settings then added the two new video sources making sure for the first PVR-500 tuner to use /dev/video1 with tuner0 for the first input and /dev/video2 with tuner0 for the second input. There is an option for tuner1 but make sure that you do not use it. The PVR-500 is recognized as two PVR-150s and you have to setup as above to match this configuration. Then go in and map your channel guides to this new setup. Exit out of mythtvsetup and you are ready to enjoy your new cards.
Hope this helps anyone trying to get a PVR-500mce working on FC3.
Allan Wilson
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