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post #1 of 10
7/15/12 at 9:16am
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I purchased the Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1250 2 years ago to set up a Mythbuntu box. At the time I was unable to get it working at all. It simply would not recognize the card. After hours and hours of research, I admitted defeat and gave up.

Flash forward to yesterday. I downloaded the newest version of Mythbuntu, 12.04, thinking that the newest version would have all the bugs worked out.

Same issues as before. Has anyone else used this card before?
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post #2 of 10
7/15/12 at 9:18am
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One thing I just thought of was that the card is plugged into a PCI express 16x slot, and its a 1x card due to only having a single 16x slot (the mobo has integrated hdmi). Could Ubuntu be tripping on it thinking its a display adapter or something?
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post #3 of 10
7/15/12 at 9:59am
If you run the command lspci from the terminal you should see all your PCI devices. This doesn't mean they are working, just that the O/S knows they are connected to the system. I'm not familiar with your particular card but if it is not automatically recognized in MythTV, you may need to manually install a driver for it.

According to the link below, no additional drivers are needed.
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Digital_Tuner_Cards
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post #4 of 10
7/15/12 at 11:16am
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Thanks for the info, but embarrassingly I figured out what the problem was. I assumed that mythtv had configured itself automatically. So I went in and configured everything and it works now!

My next question is how to disable transcoding? I am using the box just to record OTA channels, and I have a 750 gig hdd. So I'd rather have the best quality and have it eat up a lot of space.
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post #5 of 10
7/15/12 at 3:09pm
I don't believe trancoding is enabled by default. please correct me if I am wrong. If it is, you can disable it in the backend settings in the general settings on the page for "jobs".
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post #6 of 10
7/16/12 at 3:40pm
don't worry -- I just bought this POS HVR1250 card myself and it will crash my windows 7 installation -- and I mean I've been forced to do a complete reinstall of windows 3 times and still nothing.

thanks happaugue -- you sell crap.
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post #7 of 10
7/17/12 at 8:32am
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Originally Posted by ralphcramdon View Post

don't worry -- I just bought this POS HVR1250 card myself and it will crash my windows 7 installation -- and I mean I've been forced to do a complete reinstall of windows 3 times and still nothing.
thanks happaugue -- you sell crap.
Maybe you should try Mythbuntu then, it seems to work fine under Linux using Mythbuntu. wink.gif
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post #8 of 10
7/17/12 at 10:26am
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Originally Posted by tux99 View Post

Maybe you should try Mythbuntu then, it seems to work fine under Linux using Mythbuntu. wink.gif
I was thinking along the same lines. Maybe it is Windows that sells the crap.
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post #9 of 10
7/19/12 at 9:38am
Guess I'm lucky, my HVR-1250 has worked from day 1. Need to get my HDHomerun plugged in next.
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post #10 of 10
8/18/12 at 2:47pm
how did you manually configure?
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