[vdr] Re: WinTV-PVR 150 questions

[Lars Altenhain <lars@altenhain.de>]

On Monday 27 December 2004 17:58, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> Lars Altenhain wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Monday 27 December 2004 12:05, Rene Bredlau wrote:
> >>Hi Klaus,
> >>
> >>Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> >>>Since the 'kfir' driver I'm using will apparently not be ported
> >>>to kernel 2.6, I'm looking for an alternative that allows me to
> >>>convert an analog a/v signal into an MPEG2 transport stream.
> >>>
> >>>The new Hauppauge WinTV-PVR 150 appears to be a cost efficient
> >>>way to achieve this. Therefore I'd like to ask if anybody here
> >>>already has experiences with such a card.
> >>>
> >>>Especially I'd like to know:
> >>>
> >>>- is there a Linux driver for this card?
> >>
> >>The people from the ivtv driver are working on this card, too. But i do
> >>not know the state of the development for this card at the moment. If
> >>there is something working allready you should check the current
> >>development branch 0.3 on it.
> >>
> >>>- can it deliver a transport stream?
> >>
> >>To use the driver together with vdr you can take the analogtv plugin or
> >>extend vdr itself ;-)
> >>
> >>If you pick a PVR-250 it is allready working. PVR-150 is quite new and
> >>somehow different to the other PVR-??? modules.
> >
> > The problem with the PVR-250 is, that it doesn't deliver a working
> > transport stream.
>
> Does this mean that it basically _does_ deliver a TS, but just a broken
> one - or doesn't it deliver a TS at all? In the first case: is that the
> driver's fault or a hardware limitation?

It depends on the firmware version of the PVR, wether the TS is only broken or 
there is no TS at all. Older firmware versions deliver a broken TS. The 
picture is ok but sound is not in sync, or has dropouts. With the latest 
firmware version there is no TS at all. 

Lars