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# Hardware/ivtv

Site Index:

1. General Info
2. IVTV Driver
3. TV-Out
4. LIRC / WinTV PCR remote control
5. Freevo setup for IVTV

## General Info

There is support for the WinTV-PVR series of cards in Freevo; the WinTV-PVR 250/350 cards have recently been getting a lot more attention.

## IVTV Driver

The drivers for these cards are under active development and are becoming stable, see http://ivtv.sourceforge.net . Please make sure your card and the ivtv driver are working properly before trying to use it in Freevo. That is, download and install the latest ivtv driver; you'll find information on this in the IVTV documentation and the IVTV FAQ. Basically, this boils down to:

- Compiling and installing the modules (i.e. make && make install)

- Making sure you have the firmware for the cards in /lib/modules. There is a utility included with the driver package that will help you with this called ivtvfwextract.pl. Run it with the location of the windows driver package as its only argument (defaults to /mnt/cdrom) and it will do the rest.

- Loading and testing the driver

- Putting the options and module dependancies into your modules.conf file

- Setting up the module(s) for autoloading on boot

The MythTV site offers an excellent page that describes how to install a PVR-250/350 on Mandrake 9.1. It may be helpful for other distros as well.

## TV-Out

If you want Freevo to use the WinTV PVR card's TV-out, you can use the TV-out as a standard framebuffer device for X. Once you get X working with this framebuffer device freevo works with it just like any other X display. This is explained in the TvOutHowto page of the IVTV Wiki.

## LIRC / WinTV PCR remote control

After setting up the IVTV driver, you might want to set up LIRC, too. My lirc came with a suitable lircd.conf.hauppauge config file which actually contains two separate descriptions of remote controls. The second one matches my remote (that came with the PVR 350). See Configuration / Lirc for more info.

## Freevo setup for IVTV

See AnalogTvConfig

last edited 2004-12-31 12:16:38 by BHeremans
current version: http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/doc/Hardware/ivtv