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| Author: | micsaund [ Tue Feb 17, 2004 9:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Adding a second PVR-250 |
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 |
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| Author: | cesman [ Tue Feb 17, 2004 11:18 pm ] |
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Just add it... It should be found and the modules will be setup for you. |
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| Author: | mgordon [ Wed Feb 18, 2004 7:29 am ] |
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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. |
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| Author: | mgordon [ Wed Feb 18, 2004 7:30 am ] |
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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. |
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| Author: | cesman [ Wed Feb 18, 2004 8:16 am ] |
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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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| Author: | mgordon [ Wed Feb 18, 2004 8:26 am ] |
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The decision has been made - PVR-250! Thanks for the input. Mike G. |
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| Author: | Xsecrets [ Wed Feb 18, 2004 9:41 am ] |
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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. |
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| Author: | freddyman [ Thu Feb 19, 2004 7:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | problem with second pvr card |
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. |
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| Author: | freddyman [ Thu Feb 19, 2004 8:10 pm ] |
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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. |
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| Author: | Sean [ Thu Mar 18, 2004 1:01 pm ] |
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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? |
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| Author: | Xsecrets [ Thu Mar 18, 2004 1:29 pm ] |
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dissimilar cards are fine. I personally have a leadtek and a pvr250. |
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| Author: | Sean [ Fri Mar 19, 2004 8:02 am ] |
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Oh, great. Thank you. |
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| Author: | Gnarl [ Fri Apr 02, 2004 3:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Leadtech |
How is the quality on the Leadtech card? Was the remote easliy set up? |
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| Author: | Xsecrets [ Fri Apr 02, 2004 5:40 pm ] |
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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" |
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