PVR-250

Fmstrat · Post by **Fmstrat** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 6:59 pm

I searched but didn't see anything at all on this card here. Has anyone successfully used a PVR-250 for zoneminder? And if so, what settings did you use?

Post by **cordel** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 10:11 am

Looking through the kernel code I see 0x45000070, BTTV_HAUPPAUGEPVR, "Hauppauge WinTV/PVR" listed. Although it does not say 250.
If you already have the card installed in a linux machine run scanpci -v and list the info for the card here. I'll see if the card and device are in the drivers.
Cheers,
Cordel

Fmstrat · Post by **Fmstrat** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:31 pm

pci bus 0x0001 cardnum 0x08 function 0x00: vendor 0x4444 device 0x0803
Internext Compression Inc iTVC15 MPEG-2 Encoder
CardVendor 0x0070 card 0x4801 (Hauppauge computer works Inc., Card unknown)
STATUS 0x0210 COMMAND 0x0006
CLASS 0x04 0x00 0x00 REVISION 0x01
BIST 0x00 HEADER 0x00 LATENCY 0x20 CACHE 0x08
BASE0 0xe0000008 addr 0xe0000000 MEM PREFETCHABLE
MAX_LAT 0x08 MIN_GNT 0x80 INT_PIN 0x01 INT_LINE 0x09
BYTE_0 0x80 BYTE_1 0x80 BYTE_2 0x00 BYTE_3 0x00

It's not the BTTV version, or at least I dont think, this one has a hardware MPEG2 encoder and uses IVTV. I use it with MythTV.

Post by **cordel** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 11:53 pm

I don't see anything for that chip set. You could try putting this in modprobe.conf
options bttv card=80 tuner=2
worst case it just will not work.
It looks like there might be some driver support provided by anouther project
http://ivtv.sourceforge.net/
This looks promising but since I don't have a card to work with at the moment I would be unable to provide you any further assistance since I have never used ivtv drivers.
Also note that you would have to modifiy zm code to use this driver.
Probably easier to buy a capture board from ebay for $20-$30 or the beloved ituner spectra card.

Fmstrat · Post by **Fmstrat** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 2:29 am

I actually have it working with MythTV and ivtv. I was just playing with ZM to see if I liked it (I'm from the RH9 w/ myth post). I ended up fishing out an old TVPhone card and using that.