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Author:  nharris [ Fri Mar 06, 2009 2:45 pm ]
Post subject:  HOWTO: R6 and the Hauppauge HD-PVR
HOWTO: LinHES R6 and the Hauppauge HD-PVR

Life is good under R6. MythTV SVN trunk packages are provided in the repository. These packages support the HD-PVR as well as VDPAU.

Please read the R5.5 post for some history on this topic:
http://knoppmyth.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=18713

Words of Caution:

Your myth database will automatically be updated to the latest version and you cannot go back to 0.21-fixes. Backup your mysql database before proceeding.

The LinHES theme is not supported. Please choose one of the standard mythtv themes before upgrading.

Currently, all the nice MythVantage system configuration stuff will not work (it is using the stable mythtv API). This will be fixed in the future.

This is pre-alpha type software that is constantly in flux with known and unknown problems. Stuff may be broken and probably is. Don't complain about loss of data, broken features/drivers/software, headaches, etc...

Before you start down this path, make sure your R6 installation is up to date.
Code:
pacman -Syu


Installing the HD-PVR Driver:

The HD-PVR driver is now merged with the main v4l-dvb source code repository and is included in the latest v4l-dvb package.
Code:
pacman -Sf v4l-dvb


You may need to add the hdpvr module to your /etc/rc.conf. I'm not sure of this step yet, so chime in and let me know.

For more info on the driver (including debugging), see the MythTV Wiki page:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_HD-PVR

Install the nVidia Driver with VDPAU Support:

Optionally, if you have a supported nVidia video card, install the nVidia drivers with VDPAU support.
Code:
pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils


It is currently suggested that you disable the compositing extension of Xorg.
Code:
nvidia-xconfig --no-composite


Also enable "OpenGL VSync" in the MythTV playback setup.

For more info on VDPAU, see the MythTV Wiki page:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Vdpau

Install the MythTV SVN Packages:

Finally, remove the stable MythTV packages and install the SVN version.
Code:
pacman -R mythappletrailers
pacman -R mythtv mythtv-extras
pacman -S mythtv-svn mythtv-extras-svn


Let me know if you run into any problems, so I can keep this post up-to-date.

last edit: 30 August 2009
Author:  nharris [ Fri Mar 20, 2009 12:59 pm ]
Post subject: 
The HD-PVR drivers have been merged into the baseline v4l-dvb trunk.
Author:  hackmeister [ Fri Mar 20, 2009 1:06 pm ]
Post subject: 
nharris wrote:
The HD-PVR drivers have been merged into the baseline v4l-dvb trunk.

Great news. I assume it will be in the next stable kernel release? All we need now is for MythTV 0.22 to be released and we'll be golden! :)
Author:  nharris [ Tue Apr 07, 2009 12:02 pm ]
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The nVidia drivers with decent VDPAU support have officially been released (180.44). So, if you have the beta stuff installed, install the regular nvidia driver instead.

Code:
pacman -Rd nvidia-beta nvidia-utils-beta
pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils
Author:  nharris [ Tue Apr 07, 2009 12:13 pm ]
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hackmeister wrote:
Great news. I assume it will be in the next stable kernel release? All we need now is for MythTV 0.22 to be released and we'll be golden! :)

It's rumored to be in the .30 kernel.
Author:  hackmeister [ Wed Apr 22, 2009 1:39 pm ]
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nharris wrote:
It's rumored to be in the .30 kernel.

Not a rumor. It WILL be in the upcoming 2.6.30 release:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux%2Fkernel ... it&s=hdpvr
Author:  nharris [ Wed Apr 22, 2009 1:44 pm ]
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hackmeister wrote:
Not a rumor. It WILL be in the upcoming 2.6.30 release:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux%2Fkernel ... it&s=hdpvr

Good to know. I just upped the nvidia drivers to the latest 180.51 release. The change log says they fixed a hang with H.264 decode. I'm hoping this fixes the freeze I have seen recently with VDPAU and hdpvr recordings.
Author:  nharris [ Mon May 18, 2009 1:48 pm ]
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New mythtv-svn packages are out there (18 May 2009). Update and report any issues here.

Code:
pacman -Syu
Author:  mihanson [ Sun May 24, 2009 9:42 pm ]
Post subject: 
Nathan,

Just tried to upgrade my MBE to mythtv-svn per the instructions in your first post. Things went well until mythbackend tried to start. Seems I'm missing a shared vdpau library libvdpau.so.1. This is a backend only machine with no vdpau capable video device in it. I do not use it as a FE at all. It's strictly a backend and I cannot get mythbackend to start without the libvdpau.so.1 library. Any ideas?

PS: Thankfully I ran mythbackup first. :)
Author:  nharris [ Tue May 26, 2009 7:05 am ]
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mihanson wrote:
It's strictly a backend and I cannot get mythbackend to start without the libvdpau.so.1 library. Any ideas?

Ugh! I was hoping that I would not need to make a special non-vdpau build and that it would dynamically link. No luck it appears. So, I guess there will need to be mythtv-svn and mythtv-svn-vdpau packages.

mihanson wrote:
PS: Thankfully I ran mythbackup first. :)
Smart!
Author:  hackmeister [ Wed Jun 10, 2009 12:07 pm ]
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Linux kernel 2.6.30 is officially out:
http://www.h-online.com/open/Linux-Kern ... ews/113492

I searched through the source code and can confirm the hdpvr driver is in there! Now all we need is for Myth 0.22 to be finished.
Author:  nharris [ Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:08 am ]
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Just wanted to post some good news.

With the latest HD-PVR firmware (v1.5.6 as of this post) and the MythTV svn build, the HD-PVR is working very smoothly. LiveTV now works fine and I have my resolutions floating between 480p and 720p on my DirecTV box. I have not attempted interlaced H.264 content, but that's the next thing on the list.

I am also using VDPAU and it is very stable now. No recent crashes or hangs on the frontend and the backend is running smoothly with low memory usage.
Author:  hackmeister [ Thu Jul 16, 2009 11:18 pm ]
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I upgraded to svn and my frontend seems to have no menus. Hitting some keys I get a menu entry to show up but it is unresponsive. Trying to run mythtv-setup I get the following error:
Unable to load window 'mainmenu' from menu-ui.xml, Couldn't find theme LinHES
Author:  nharris [ Fri Jul 17, 2009 6:03 am ]
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hackmeister, the LinHES custom theme is not supported in svn. You will need to use one of the standard mythtv themes. I spelled this out in the R5.5 HOWTO, but I did not duplicate all the warnings in the R6 version. You can change the theme using mythweb or by manually editing the database.
Author:  hackmeister [ Fri Jul 17, 2009 8:48 am ]
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Switched to blootube and I have my menus back. Another issue I'm having is that I see 2 recordings where there should be 30 or so. Maybe a database issue?
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