I bought this tuner card ( Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2250 Dual TV Tuner / Encoder 1229 PCI-Express x1 Interface - OEM ) to put in my new atom based backend. It doesn't seem to be as solid as a recorder as my Das Original Air2PC cards… BUT… we'll try again.

1. Fresh install of Mythbuntu 10.04 LTS wiping out the original.
   • Chose the primary backend
   • Enabled ALL services: SAMBA, NFS, SSH, Mythtv
2. Update the packages to the latest and reboot
3. Install some programs I cannot live without:
   1. jed:

       sudo apt-get install jed 

1. Set the IP address to be static (help found here): modify /etc/network/interfaces to reflect the local IP
   1. remove the network manager stuff

      aptitude remove network-manager

   2. remove the DHCP client:

      sudo apt-get remove dhcp-client

   3. set our IP address to what you want:

      # The primary network interface                                                 
      auto eth0                                                                       
      iface eth0 inet static                                                          
              address xx.xx.xx.xx
              netmask 255.255.255.0                                                   
              network xx.xx.xx.xx                                                   
              broadcast xx.xx.xx.255                                               
              gateway xx.xx.xx.1                                                   
              # dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installed 
              dns-nameservers xx.xx.xx.xx                            
              dns-search some.domain.com

• found this link on this page: http://www.kernellabs.com/blog/?page_id=17
• Here are the Mythtv instructions from whence this came: http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7344302
• These might actually be the instructions: http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=942403&page=22

Prep:

sudo apt-get install unzip

wget http://www.steventoth.net/linux/hvr22xx/22xxdrv_27086.zip
wget http://www.steventoth.net/linux/hvr22xx/HVR-12x0-14x0-17x0_1_25_25271_WHQL.zip
wget http://www.steventoth.net/linux/hvr22xx/extract.sh
chmod 755 extract.sh
sh extract.sh
# THIS FW I had to find by googling:
wget http://steventoth.net/linux/hvr22xx/firmwares/4038864/v4l-saa7164-1.0.3-3.fw
# END mods
sudo cp *fw /lib/firmware
sudo apt-get install mercurial libncurses5-dev
hg clone http://kernellabs.com/hg/saa7164-stable/
cd saa7164-stable
make CONFIG_DVB_FIREDTV:=n
sudo make install
sudo reboot

• General
  • [Page 1] IP Address to xx.xx.xx.xx
  • [Page 1] Master backend IP address to same xx.xx.xx.xx
  • [Last Page] Automatically run mythfilldatabase
• Capture Cards
  • New Capture Card → DVB 0
  • New Capture Care → DVB 1
• Video Source
  • New Video Source
    • Video Source name: Local ATSC
    • Username:
    • Password:
    • PRESS Retrieve lineups and pull up our zip code channels
• Input Connections
  • Connect each tuner to the video source
    • Scan for channels

1. Installed Mythbuntu from CD making this computer just a “front end”
2. Enabled SSH
3. Left DHCP as I have my daemon giving out the proper IP based on MAC address

1. Modified theme to the one I LIKE!
2. Modified ALSA mixer so that audio SPDIF is output
   1. Load up the mixer as root

      sudo alsamixer

   2. Modify the line: Item: S/PDIF Output [Off] with the 'M' key
   3. Save your configuration with:

      sudo alsactl store 0

3. Modified the Audio output to use S/PDIF:
   1. Utilities / Setup → Setup → General → Page 4
      1. Speaker Configuration from Stereo to 5.1
      2. Upmix: Best
      3. Audio Processing Capabilities: Check both Dolby Digital AND DTS
4. Set our VIDEO output to VDPAU:
   1. Utilities / Setup → TV Settings → Playback → Page 3/8
   2. Current Video Playback Profile:VDPAU High Quality

I added the following lines to my lirc configuration: ~/.lirc/mythtv

### added by david rabine (dlr) 2009.12.28 ###

# I added the following - dlr 2008/10/18
# Skip forward (10 min default)
begin
    remote = Streamzap_PC_Remote
    prog = mythtv
    button = >>
    repeat = 0
    config = PgDown
    delay = 0
end

begin
    remote = Streamzap_PC_Remote
    prog = mythtv
    button = <<
    repeat = 0
    config = PgUp
    delay = 0
end

# Seek to previous commercial cut point
begin
    remote = Streamzap_PC_Remote
    prog = mythtv
    button = YELLOW
    repeat = 0
    config = Q
end

# Seek to next commercial cut point
begin
    remote = Streamzap_PC_Remote
    prog = mythtv
    button = BLUE
    repeat = 0
    config = Z
end

1. Add in symbolic links to our libraries
2. Go to Listen to Music and it will scan for new files

1. Add in symbolic links for all our shares / files
2. Go to Utilities / Setup → Setup → Media Settings → Video Settings → General Settings: /var/lib/mythtv/video as Directories that hold videos

1. The images were “tearing” with some High Definition content, found http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VDPAU this page. Not sure why disabling the composite output on the card fixes this, but it does.

   sudo nvidia-xconfig --no-composite