PVR-150 TV card woes

[mindwave at cfl.rr.com]

I may be missing a huge part of the discussion, but i have a PVR250 running great.
 
unfortunately its under Mandriva and again under Xandros.
 
worse yet its w/ mythTV. But that should at least lead you to believe that it IS possible.
 
(I hope)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Colin Brace <cb at lim.nl> 
Date: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 12:30 pm 
Subject: PVR-150 TV card woes 
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com> 

> Hi all, 
> 
> I am trying with mixed results to get a Hauppauge PVR-150 TV card 
> working on my FC6 system. 
> 
> Neither tvtime nor kdetv support the PVR cards. Whether zapping does, 
> I don't know; in any case it crashes when I try to start it. 
> 
> xawtv does handle PVR cards, but I can't get beyond this error message 
> at startup: 
> 
> /dev/video1 [v4l2]: no overlay support 
> 
> I've googled this and found various hits, but no obvious solution. 
> 
> Both vlc and mplayer do work with it, and the display with the former 
> is particularly fine, but neither offer a reasonable way of changing 
> channels (AFAIK). 
> 
> At the moment, I have found a couple channels by trial and error with 
> xawtv, so I start xawtv to change the channel, exit, then start 
> mplayer to view it or mencoder to record it. Hardly satisfying! 
> 
> Maybe MythTV is the route to go, but at the moment I can't get the 
> backend/mysql stuff working. 
> 
> Is there anyone who has gotten further than this with a Hauppauge card 
> under Fedora? 
> 
> Thanks. 
> 
> -- 
> Colin Brace 
> Amsterdam 
> 
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