[pvrusb2] RHEL 5.6 Hauppauge 1950 USB PVR

[Tomas Hajek]

Hi Mike,  Thanks for the quick and thorough reply.  I kind of figured what you said to be the case, if nothing else this just means I probably don't need to spend anymore time trying to get it to work in RHEL 5.6 and either go to Fedora or Ubuntu.  Basically trying to setup the 1950 to capture video for streaming with flumotion streaming server.  Flumotion only supports Fedora, Ubuntu, and RHEL.  I wanted something with long term support so I guess I'll  have to see if the Ubuntu 8.04 LTS works (since their support for Fedora is 11 which is EOL now).  
  I also use Real Producer from real networks but I've had to hack work arounds for that for years since they only just started supporting RHEL 5 and still only really work properly with v4l1.  I was hoping that the RHEL 5 would be common ground for both but I can work things out by phasing out Real as soon as possible and more over to flumotion.
  thanks again,
 -Tomas

----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Isely <isely at isely.net>
Date: Thursday, February 17, 2011 5:04 pm
Subject: Re: [pvrusb2] RHEL 5.6 Hauppauge 1950 USB PVR
To: Communications nexus for pvrusb2 driver <pvrusb2 at isely.net>

> 
> Tomas:
> 
> Your kernel is probably too old.  While I obviously can't 
> know what 
> might have been backported by the distro vendor, here's a 
> general guide 
> for generic kernel versions:
> 
> http://www.isely.net/pvrusb2/setup.html#Prerequisites
> 
> In particular, though the pvrusb2 driver has been in the kernel 
> tree 
> since 2.6.18, and you could certainly compile the standalone 
> driver for 
> an even older kernel, the problem you are going to have is DVB 
> support 
> in general and specific support for the tuner that's in your HVR-
> 1950.  
> Those are pieces that are outside of the pvrusb2 driver that you 
> need 
> for the HVR-1950 to work at all.  And that means that you 
> need to move 
> up to at least kernel version 2.6.26.
> 
> Unfortunately the tuner driver in v4l-dvb that your HVR-1950 
> needs has 
> undergone a lot of thrashing and I think Hauppauge may have even 
> changed 
> out the part at some point.  That all means that you may 
> need an even 
> *more* recent kernel before it's going to work.
> 
> But certainly ancient kernels like 2.6.18 or 2.6.20 just aren't 
> going to 
> work for what you need to do :-(
> 
>   -Mike
> 
> 
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> 
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