Re: [Freevo-users] Rebuilding again my freevobox...

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Phil Raymond a écrit :
> I use the Hauppauge HD PVR, which captures HD from the cable box using component cables, then converts it to h.264 AVCHD in a .mpg container. I posted a local_conf example in the Freevo wiki, it's just a simple stream dump, since this is a hardware encoder. Component out from an SD box would work, albeit not HD. It is a bit expensive, Amazon has it for $204 U.S., it lists for $249. The beauty of this device is that it will record anything from your cable box, even premium movie channels and on-demand content.
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Hi Phil,

Thanks for your answer. Unfortunately, the HD PVR is very expensive in 
Europe, and I wasn't so confident to buy one in te United States.
So I finally bougth a 'not so cheap' Hauppauge PVR USB2. This thing is 
really easy to setup, it's nearly a PCI PVR replacment, for freevo (and 
for xin, too) !

So as you can guess, here I am with some questions ;-)

First the setup : I setu the PVR USB3 like a PCI PVR card, so I use the 
ivtv_xine_tv plugin to drive the beast.
* I was a little bit astonished when I did download the svn version of 
freevo, as freevo states that the current version is still 1.8.4 ? So I 
finally installed the tags/REL-1_9_1 version (and the current kaa svn 
version).

* When I started the tv plugin, I got a crash :
(I didn't recordthe exact message, but the trouble was when the ivtv.py 
prog try first to read the 'Stream VBI Format', the just after to set 
the same'Stream VBI Format'.)
To pass over, I just change in tv/ivtv.py, line 325 and 338 :
The original line was:
 if self.version >= 0x800:
and I rplaced by
 if self.version >= 0xF00:

so this part of the test is false and the prog go further, with only a 
short message :
2009-11-07 18:48:52,193 WARNING  ivtv.py (333): getvbiembed: failed
2009-11-07 18:48:52,194 WARNING  ivtv.py (345): setvbiembed: failed

But I suppose that this is not the correct solution !

* Last (for now !), my system set the PVR box as /dev/video1. I setup 
freevo according, but xine didn't like it. In fact, xine in the pvr/// 
forms seems to connect only on /dev/viedo0, and google dind't help much, 
this time. To be sure, I remove the webvcam driver (I currently use my 
laptop for the test, so no, I cannot disconnect the webcam !), then the 
pvrusb2 driver, and loaded then in the reverse order : pvrusb2 got the 
/dev/video0 and I can watch TV (didn't do a lot of test for now !)
Is there a way to tell xine to use another device than /dev/video0, an 
if so, is freevo 'aware' of that ?


Many many thanks,
Pascal