PVR-150 TV card woes

[Roger Heflin]

Colin Brace wrote:
> 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.
> 

Mythtv works fine for viewing, changing channels, and recording
things.

The reason that the others don't work is that the Hauppauge cards
produce a MPEG output stream, the cards that work with the others
produce a different type of stream, and the others (xawtv, and kdetv)
I don't believe have the ability to deal with card that outputs
a mpeg stream.

Both mplayer and vlc are setup to deal with mpeg streams.

                              Roger