TV on F7 with Hauppauge WinTV-PVR 250

[Matthew Saltzman]

What's the simplest way to start using the above TV tuner card to watch
TV on Fedora 7?  TVtime apparently does not support decoding MPEG-2,
so I guess it is not a candidate.

Thanks.

[Phil Meyer]

Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> What's the simplest way to start using the above TV tuner card to watch
> TV on Fedora 7?  TVtime apparently does not support decoding MPEG-2,
> so I guess it is not a candidate.
>
> Thanks.

Did you start here?

http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Main_Page

Good Luck!

[Sam Varshavchik]

Phil Meyer writes:
> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > What's the simplest way to start using the above TV tuner card to watch
> > TV on Fedora 7?  TVtime apparently does not support decoding MPEG-2,
> > so I guess it is not a candidate.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> Did you start here?
>
> http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Main_Page

He doesn't need to start there. Kernel 2.6.22 has the ivtv driver merged.

MythTV is the way to go.

[Ingemar Nilsson]

Sam Varshavchik  writes:
> He doesn't need to start there. Kernel 2.6.22 has the ivtv driver merged.

But we still need to manually install the firmware, right?

Regards
Ingemar

[Sam Varshavchik]

Ingemar Nilsson writes:
> Sam Varshavchik  writes:
> > He doesn't need to start there. Kernel 2.6.22 has the ivtv driver merged.
>
> But we still need to manually install the firmware, right?

Yes. That's all you need to do for the 250 and if you do not need the 
userland ivtv tools. If you have a 350 and want to use its TV-Out, or if you 
need ivtv's userland tools, you still need to install ivtv, which, for 
kernel 2.6.22 contains just the tools and one 350-specific kernel module, 
which didn't make it into 2.6.22 (but will probably go into 2.6.23).

Also note that ivtv has obtained a license from Hauppauge to freely 
redistribute the firmware. It's a completely legal download. If Fedora 
approached Hauppauge and worked out something similar for Fedora 8, that 
would make for some publicity. A Linux distro being "PVR ready", out of the 
box, would probably make the headlines in the usual rags; playing against 
the GPL3 vs. Tivoization meme (even though you'll still need to grab 
something like MythTV to make it work).