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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