From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 20 23:44:53 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 218EB106564A for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:44:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no) Received: from thalia-smout.broadpark.no (thalia-smout.broadpark.no [80.202.8.21]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFEE28FC1C for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:44:52 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from terra-smin.broadpark.no ([80.202.8.13]) by thalia-smout.broadpark.no (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u3-15.01 64bit (built Feb 12 2010)) with ESMTP id <0LJZ00FRJ5YR4N60@thalia-smout.broadpark.no> for freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 01:44:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: from kg-v2.kg4.no ([84.48.120.215]) by terra-smin.broadpark.no (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u3-15.01 64bit (built Feb 12 2010)) with SMTP id <0LJZ004DN5YQR8I0@terra-smin.broadpark.no> for freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 01:44:51 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 01:44:50 +0200 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org Message-id: <20110421014450.b8d9c0d0.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> In-reply-to: <20110420140438.46071be2@zeus.saul.homeunix.org> References: <20110420140438.46071be2@zeus.saul.homeunix.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.0 (GTK+ 2.22.1; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.1) X-Face: "t9w2,-X@O^I`jVW\sonI3.,36KBLZE*AL[y9lL[PyFD*r_S:dIL9c[8Y>V42R0"!"yb_zN,f#%.[PYYNq; m"_0v; ~rUM2Yy!zmkh)3&U|u!=T(zyv,MHJv"nDH>OJ`t(@mil461d_B'Uo|'nMwlKe0Mv=kvV?Nh@>Hb<3s_z2jYgZhPb@?Wi^x1a~Hplz1.zH Cc: Subject: Re: Headless box with PVR-250 - ideas needed X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:44:53 -0000 On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:04:38 -0500 Saul A Peebsen wrote: > So I did my homework, at least I thought I did. I read the Wiki which > tells us PVR-x50 works with MythTV. I bought a PVR-250 for this very > purpose, to work with MythTV backend. I crawled in dusty attic > installing cables. I hacked the drivers to make them work with my card. > All this was in vain, MythTV does not work with this card. To be precise: the current version of MythTV in ports (0.24_1) doesn't work with your card, yes? My main MythTV backend has a PVR-500 card (= 2 x PVR-150s), but runs a very old version of MythTV (0.20). My test machine has a PVR-350 in it, and ran MythTV 0.22 happily. No, we didn't succed in making MythTV 0.23 work with that card, and we haven't (yet) succeded with MythTV 0.24. > Now I need some ideas, how could I at least watch TV in my desktop > using that card in headless box, buried in the closet? Well, the card needs a driver for it to work. For MythTV that means that you have to have a working mythbackend install on that machine at least. If you could live with an older version of MythTV, you could always try to portdowngrade to MythTV 0.22 and see if that one would work with your card. Other options: vdr is in ports (I have just tried it briefly, to me it looks as difficult to get working as MythTV was initially). YMMV You could run another os on your backend (Linux?) and just run the mythfrontend on your (FreeBSD) desktop. Note: you *must* use the same version of MythTV (actually, the same version of the MythTV protocol) on the frontend as you do on the backend, or ity won't work. So yes, there are options, none of them perfect. -- Torfinn