I'm just curious since I'm gonna snag another PVR-250 next time they're on sale: Can I just basically plug the card in and have it recognized automatically (except for the Myth settings of course) or will I need to monkey with modules/config files? I'm just wondering if anything special is done to set-up dual cards during the initial install or if an existing system will recognize everything automatically.

BTW - anyone know of any good deals on a PVR-250 right now?

Thanks!
Mike

Just add it... It should be found and the modules will be setup for you.

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

Is this also true of the WINTV-401?

Besides the remote (& price) what is the difference between the PVR-250 and WINTV-401?

I already have a functioning remote with my LeadTech WinFast 2000 Deluxe.

I am just looking to add a second tuner with btaudio support.

newegg.com
WINTV-401 $75
PVR-250 $140


Thanks,
Mike G.

Is this also true of the WINTV-401?

Besides the remote (& price) what is the difference between the PVR-250 and WINTV-401?

I already have a functioning remote with my LeadTech WinFast 2000 Deluxe.

I am just looking to add a second tuner with btaudio support.

newegg.com
WINTV-401 $75
PVR-250 $140

Thanks,
Mike G.

It is true of any card supported by Linux/KnoppMyth. The difference is software encoding(401) vs hardware encoding(250) and the quality of the capture. The 250 is better.

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

The decision has been made - PVR-250!

Thanks for the input.
Mike G.

and I can tell you a leadtek and pvr250 work fine together. That's what I run in my system, however I did opt to go with the pvr250 grey remote, I just like it better than the one that came with the leadtek and the fact that it's the one setup out of the box on knoppmyth didn't hurt either.

I just added a pvr-250 with the already existing pvr-350 I had already in my system. I set up the card by running mythtv-setup and adding /dev/video1

If I record a show and then go to watch tv simultaneously, live tv never comes up and I get thrown back to the mythtv menu.

Any ideas? Did I miss a step?

lspci -v tells me the system sees both the 350 and 250:

02:05.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15 MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.: Unknown device 4000
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
Memory at ec000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

02:07.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc: Unknown device 0016 (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.: Unknown device 4009
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2


I tried cat /dev/video1 > test.mpg and all I get is a black screen.

well, sorry about this, as usual sometimes one can answer their own questions...

I went back into mythtv-setup and deleted all the cards and re set them up. The problem I had was that I typed in a 1 after where it said /dev/video. This time I used the arrows to get to that field and right arrowed until I got to video1.

Hope someone else runs across this thread if they have the same problem.

If one has a 401 installed, is adding a 250 or 250 kosher? ie. Are dissimilar cards acceptable, or must the two cards be like models?

dissimilar cards are fine. I personally have a leadtek and a pvr250.

Oh, great. Thank you.

How is the quality on the Leadtech card?
Was the remote easliy set up?

I don't really have any complaints with the quality. It's not quite as crisp as the pvr250, but it doesn't suffer from the interlace artifacts during fast motion either. I am not using the leadtek remote. I use the grey remote from the hauppage that works "out of the box"