Do the Hauppauge PRV-150 cards and the pcHDTV HD-3000 cards normally work ok in the same pc? They aren't in mine.

I've got a successful install of R5C7 with an HD-3000 card running on an Asus A8N-VM CSM mini-atx motherboard. I am using the onboard nvidia 6150 video. The board has a pci-express slot but I am not using it.
There are only 2 pci slots on this motheboard.
I have the HD-3000 card installed in the pci slot next to the pci-express slot.
The WATCH TV command works fine for HDTV and I can record HDTV fine.

Today I decided to add a PVR-150 card. It didn't go well. After the card addition and the following reboot, I could see that Linux detected both tuner cards. Then, Mythtv took me to the setup screens and I added the PVR-150 into the card list. (mythtv-backend was stopped). For setup, I moved my antenna coax from the HD-3000 card to the PVR-150 and ran through the card addition procedure of entering the antenna as my signal source and putting the PVR-150 into a channel scan. It didn't display any channels found even though I have very strong signals from my rooftop antenna down to the end of this coax cable. I finished the setup screens and restarted the myth backend and frontend. I tried the WATCH TV button and - black screen, no text, no sound. After about 1 minute of nothing I hit the ESC key until it brought me back to the main mythtv menu.

I then powered down, removed the PVR-150 card, restarted, and tried WATCH TV - black screen again. So, I stopped the mythtv-backend and backed out to the setup screens. I removed all cards from the list and re-added the HD-3000 card, did a channel scan and restarted the backend and frontend. WATCH TV works again.

So, it would seem that the PVR-150 poisons an otherwise successful KnoppMyth install.

Is there any clue why this would be? Should I try swapping the card slot positions of the HD-3000 and PVR-150?

Eric

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KnoppMyth R5.5, Asus A8N-VM CSM (nvidia 6150 onboard video), AMD Athlon 64 dual-core 4200+, two 1GB sticks DDR 400, HD-3000 HDTV card, PVR-150 card, Iguanaworks RS-232 IR receiver/transmitter, Pioneer DVR-110 DVD burner

I just got mine working together. My setup is three HD-3000 cards and one PRV-150 card. What I figured out is that the PRV-150 card needed to use Video3 to work(the HD-3000 used Video0,Video1,and Video2). Even though in the logs it appeared to be assigned to Video0. So in your case I'd try Video1 for your PRV-150. Hope this helps you in you getting it to work.

Chris Jacobs

Where do you change what video device number the card is?
In the mythtv-setup screens?

Did you have to play with PCI card position for the cards to get all the system resources they need?

What kind of motherboard are you using?

Thanks,
Eric

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KnoppMyth R5.5, Asus A8N-VM CSM (nvidia 6150 onboard video), AMD Athlon 64 dual-core 4200+, two 1GB sticks DDR 400, HD-3000 HDTV card, PVR-150 card, Iguanaworks RS-232 IR receiver/transmitter, Pioneer DVR-110 DVD burner

Yes, first "2.Capture cards" then Video device:



I had tried the different positions before but they didn't seem to help me. But that was when I was trying to use /dev/Video0.



My setup is the following:

Motherboard MSI K8N Neo2
Hard Drives 4 Seagates for a total of 1.3 TB
3 HD-3000 cards
1 PRV-150 cards

Chris Jacobs

Chris, are you using the 5500's to do analog tuning? And are you doing OTA or cable HD? I have a 150 in my box now, and I'm looking at adding in a 5500.

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KM R5E50; K8NGM2; A64-3800+; 1024MB PC3200; LG DVD-RW; Seagate 750GB; 6600 PCI-E; Onboard sound; Hauppauge PVR-150

I wasn't happy with the analog quality on the 5500- looked all washed out. no amount of contrast and brightness adjustment would make it look good.

So now I've got a PVR-150 working with the 5500. looks great, Still working out a few details (only worked with it one night so far). You'll probably need to specify the tuner for the pvr-150 in the modules.conf. Way better quality than the bttv cards I was using previously.

I have a HD-3000 and a PVR-150 (model 1045 - non-MCE) working in perfect harmony in the same box under R5C7. My PVR-150 is /dev/video1 and I use the S-Video 0 source with it. I'm also on ivtv-0.4.1 due to tinny audio on any other ivtv driver version to date.

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mihanson - Have you tried the ivtvctl hack that someone posted recently? Searching for "ivtvctl" should turn it up pretty quickly...

tjc,
Are you referring to: "ivtvctl -c stream=10" ? If, so yes, I've seen that. I know that ivtvctl -c audio=0x0E9 works for me, but I'm just waiting on a more "permanent" solution. I'm on the ivtv-users mailing list and I can see that the problem is known and it's being worked on.

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For the benefit of others... There was a patch posted in this thread that has fixed my tinny audio issue with a PVR-150. Don't know how to patch? Try this:

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Just curious if anyone has tried a PVR-2/350 with the HD5500?

I've been using a PVR-350 for awhile but I'm building a new box to do HD. If the analog quality on the 5500 is poor, I may just keep the Hauppauge card in there as an additional tuner. Plus, the hardware encoding would take some load off my cpu when it's commercial flagging...