Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1800

[Bill Davidsen]

Mick M. wrote:
> Hi;
>  I just got this card as it has a digital tuner.
> Comcast decided to shift channels 30-70 to digital.
> 
> Anyway this tuner does not work yet in F10.
> 
> [mick at localhost ~]$ tvtime
> Running tvtime 1.0.2.
> Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml
> Reading configuration from /home/mick/.tvtime/tvtime.xml
> xvoutput: No XVIDEO port found which supports YUY2 images.
> 
> *** tvtime requires hardware YUY2 overlay support from your video card
> *** driver.  If you are using an older NVIDIA card (TNT2), then
> *** this capability is only available with their binary drivers.
> *** For some ATI cards, this feature may be found in the experimental
> *** GATOS drivers: http://gatos.souceforge.net/
> *** If unsure, please check with your distribution to see if your
> *** X driver supports hardware overlay surfaces.
> 
> [mick at localhost ~]$ lspci
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3450
> 01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV620 Audio device [Radeon HD 34xx Series]
> 02:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. Device 8880 (rev 0f)
> 
> lsmod
> v4l2_common            22912  4 tuner,cx25840,cx23885,cx2341x
> rfkill                 17188  1 rt2x00lib
> videodev               46752  4 tuner,cx25840,cx23885,v4l2_common
> snd_pcm_oss            52224  0 
> v4l1_compat            20996  1 videodev
> mac80211              213872  2 rt2x00pci,rt2x00lib
> v4l2_compat_ioctl32    17792  1 videodev
> videobuf_dvb           15236  1 cx23885
> snd_mixer_oss          23168  1 snd_pcm_oss
> dvb_core               94108  2 cx23885,videobuf_dvb
> ata_generic            14084  0 
> snd_pcm                85512  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
> cfg80211               32400  2 rt2x00lib,mac80211
> pata_acpi              13184  0 
> snd_timer              30352  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
> videobuf_core          24836  3 cx23885,videobuf_dma_sg,videobuf_dvb
> 
> [mick at localhost ~]$ uname -a
> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Feb 23 13:00:23 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> 
> kdetv
> "unable to grab video
> 
> Video display is not possible with the current plugin configuration. Try playing with the configuration options of the V4L2 plugin."
> 
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
Actually, one issue is that the display program may have selected the wrong card 
to use, if you have a bunch of /dev/videoX devices, use the option to select the 
input device. You may find that you have multiple dsp devices as well, it's been 
a while since I looked at these cards.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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