Brian Steele wrote: > 2008/8/13 Mark A Jenks <Mark.Jenks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> I am looking at purchasing a few 1800's for a new Myth box that I am setting >> up. >> >> Should I get the ones with the IR's, or not? Is the IR support on linux? >> >> I can't find anything searching around. >> >> -Mark > The IR that comes with the 1800 is a USB receiver. I only use the IR receive portion and not the blaster portion. LIRC has no problems with the IR receiver. > If you want to do analog recording using the 1800's on Myth, you might > want to consider another card or wait until the drivers improve. I > have a 1800 in my system and the digital tuner works great, but the > analog doesn't work consistently in Myth. I got it working once, but > the next time I rebooted I was getting a fuzzy picture again. Even > when it was working correctly, the recording length Myth reported was > never correct (1 hour 14 minutes for a 1 hour recording). > > The analog tuner seems to work much better if you use tvtime or > capture directly from the hardware. I think Myth is expecting the > driver to work exactly like the ivtv driver and it certainly doesn't > do that yet. > You are farther along getting the analog piece working then I am. I can't even cat /dev/video1. _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
