Initially, from reading the success stories in this forum, I was fairly confident that the 250 would work out of the box. After further reading though, I'm worried I'll pick up a 250 that wont in fact work. Does anyone know the card that should be avoided? Is it the MCE version of the 250? I'm a little confused right now, as I read about people getting different results with different 250. Any input would be appreciated.

Ivtv FAQ re: Rev 1 & 2 of the 250

Based on what Kaziya's discovered in this thread, I will be purchasing a 250 MCE version. Thanks Kaziya.

ahh no problem, tho i would reccamend bying direct from www.pcalchemy.com its probly the same guy that your looking at on ebay
and he gave the fix to me.

kaziya

You're right! I was going with him. I'll have to explore his site...looks like he's got a lot of htpc stuff. Very nice.

yep, and his site price turns out less :-p
tho that fix works for now but if you want a second pvr card it will hafta be the same one other wise no worrys

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Kaziya

HTPC:

Asus Motherboard A7V8X-X
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ (333FSB)
256MB DDR PC2700
Nvidia Geforce 3 Ti 200
WinTV-PVR-250MCE
Logitech wireliss MXDuo (keyboard and mouse)
Ati Remote Wonder

Yeah, which is too bad, considering I already have a 401 card I was wanting to try as well...did you say that this limitation would be fixed in a couple of weeks?

thats what i was told so v5 might be all fixed when its released.
shouldnt be a problem if the second card u add doesnt use the ivtv driver.

but no problem, all i need to figure out now for my setup is the spdif out

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Kaziya

HTPC:

Asus Motherboard A7V8X-X
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ (333FSB)
256MB DDR PC2700
Nvidia Geforce 3 Ti 200
WinTV-PVR-250MCE
Logitech wireliss MXDuo (keyboard and mouse)
Ati Remote Wonder