<BODY>I may be missing a huge part of the discussion, but i have a PVR250 running great. unfortunately its under Mandriva and again under Xandros. worse yet its w/ mythTV. But that should at least lead you to believe that it IS possible. (I hope) ----- Original Message ----- From: Colin Brace <cb@lim.nl> Date: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 12:30 pm Subject: PVR-150 TV card woes To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@redhat.com> > Hi all, > > I am trying with mixed results to get a Hauppauge PVR-150 TV card > working on my FC6 system. > > Neither tvtime nor kdetv support the PVR cards. Whether zapping does, > I don't know; in any case it crashes when I try to start it. > > xawtv does handle PVR cards, but I can't get beyond this error message > at startup: > > /dev/video1 [v4l2]: no overlay support > > I've googled this and found various hits, but no obvious solution. > > Both vlc and mplayer do work with it, and the display with the former > is particularly fine, but neither offer a reasonable way of changing > channels (AFAIK). > > At the moment, I have found a couple channels by trial and error with > xawtv, so I start xawtv to change the channel, exit, then start > mplayer to view it or mencoder to record it. Hardly satisfying! > > Maybe MythTV is the route to go, but at the moment I can't get the > backend/mysql stuff working. > > Is there anyone who has gotten further than this with a Hauppauge card > under Fedora? > > Thanks. > > -- > Colin Brace > Amsterdam > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@redhat.com > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > </BODY>