[pvrusb2] cx25840 video scaler is broken [was: Poor analog picture on HVR-1950 after upgrade...]

[Roger]

On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 07:55 -0700, Nicholas Robbins wrote:
> 
> 
> --- On Sat, 6/13/09, Mike Isely <isely at isely.net> wrote:
> ...
> 
> > It's even stranger that nobody noticed this until now -
> > HVR-1950 was 
> > declared supported well over a year ago.  But likely
> > most people using 
> > the HVR-1950 are probably only running it in digital mode
> > and thus don't 
> > get hit by this.  Or maybe others have independantly
> > figured out that 
> > 720 works and just haven't bothered to warn me about
> > it.  
> 
> ...
> 
> >   -Mike
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> 
> I use it only in analog mode through mythtv. The wiki at mythtv.org points to this:
> 
> http://sray.squidpower.com/2009/02/18/hauppauge-wintv-hvr-1950-on-linux-mythbuntu-mythtv-analog-digital-video-including-s-video-and-composite-inputs/  


Never knew about this site either.  Isn't much use except noting the fact,
"using mythtv-setup as user instead of root" will spawn errors when accessing
/dev/video0 for the HVR-1950.

I never knew this until now.  How irritating this wasn't posted to the
pvrusb2 mailing list!


-- 
Roger
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