On 18/09/05, Allan Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There have been quite a few posts on how to get the PVR-500mce working but I > thought I would summarize everything that I found out while getting my new > 500mce working. If anyone has anything to add please feel free to update. > > 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 ~/pvrfirmware > 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 > > Then 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. > > > # 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 > > 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.
Thanks Allan, For other new PVR-500 users, remember if you only have a single PVR-500 capture card in your system, your video devices will be /dev/video0 and /dev/video1 (still use tuner0 for both cards) and modprobe.conf will be: # ivtv modules setup alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-0 ivtv alias char-major-81-1 ivtv (As Allan noted, the PVR-500 is treated as 2 separate cards, hence the need for the 2 ivtv entries) Nick _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
