Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 950Q USB TV Tuner
I purchased a USB TV tuner device hoping to be able to do two things: a) receive (and possibly record) analog NTSC TV broadcasts, and b) accept analog input from a VCR to digitize some old VHS media.
After a lot of red herrings and attempts to install drivers, I finally understood that the device had been detected in Ubuntu Jaunty without any extra effort. Configuring the device was a little more complicated, however. I installed the following packages to help diagnose whether the device was working: dvb-apps, dvb-utils, w-scan. Unfortunately, I’ve discovered that apparently Video4Linux doesn’t support receiving analog signals with this device (my fault for not doing more research, I guess). We don’t have digital signals where I live (and I don’t have digital cable or any other usable sources available).
Potentially helpful info here and here.
Plan B: try to get the device running under Windows XP in VirtualBox.
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January 5, 2010 - 2:03 pm
I had some of the same issues as you. Using ubuntu 9.10 and hvr 950Q, i was able to get analog using tvtime, and jackd. give it a try it’s pretty easy setup.
January 6, 2010 - 10:41 am
Thanks for the suggestion. I’m travelling for a while, but when I get my stuff out of storage, I’ll give it a shot.
April 9, 2010 - 6:28 am
yes, it does work out of the box with tvtime using this command
tvtime | arecord -D hw:1,0 -r 32000 -c 2 -f S16_LE | aplay -
but could ANYONE help me with MythTV and analog cable?????