[ivtv-users] CX18: A Big Thanks!

[Christian Rapp]

Am Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:10:58 -0800 (PST)
schrieb Michael <msd4824 at yahoo.com>:

Hi, just in case you are still searching for something to watch and
record TV you might want to try TV-Viewer

http://sourceforge.net/projects/tv-viewer/

Regards


> I'm not sure if anyone remembers me or not, but about a year and a
> half ago, I had a lot of issues trying to get my Hauppauge HVR1600
> (CX18 chip) to load on my Linux box.  Most of the errors had
> something to do with the EEPROM.  I remember Andy helping me a lot,
> sending me emails about every day, with a new patch to attempt to
> correct, or at least, diagnose the problem.  Unfortunately, life got
> busy on me, and my free time that I once had to try to get this card
> working vanished.
> 
> Yesterday I checked this email account, and saw my Daily Digest of
> the IVTV Mailing List.  I figured it couldn't hurt to try again,
> wondering how far this project had gone.  After compiling the latest
> kernel (PcLinuxOS lags behind on this in the repo's, and makeconfig
> always gives warnings about certain features not being available on
> this kernel version), I compiled and installed the driver.
> 
> I ran a simple "mplayer -cache 8192 /dev/video0", and here was the
> result: http://localhostr.com/files/79a4da/snapshot4.png
> 
> I just want to tell everyone thank-you for continuing to work on
> this, and eventually making it work for people like me!  It means a
> lot.  I now just have to figure out how to change the channel.
> 
> Thanks for all the hard work!
> -Michael
> 
> 
> 
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