Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-950Q: Difference between revisions
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This is my first video capture device and I really like it. It currently works great/excellent for ATSC (digital broadcast) but, at the time of writting, it doesn't work at all for NTSC (analog TV/cable). There is a patch[http://lists-archives.org/video4linux/20859-xc5000-tuner-analog-support.html] already available that fixes this problem, but I haven't tried it. I use WinTV-HVR-950Q on very modest hardware: an old Dell Latitude D600 with 2GHz/500MB connected to a 1080p LCD TV. Both my TV and the WinTV are connected to an internal amplified antenna (TERK HDTVa). |
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This WinTV tuner is as good as my TV tuner: both found the same channels and have about the same video quality (even for 1080i broadcasts). |
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== Basic Installation == |
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The xc5000 driver needed for this WinTV-HVR-950Q is already part of the latest Linux kernel (part of v4l-dvb drivers). |
The xc5000 driver needed for this WinTV-HVR-950Q is already part of the latest Linux kernel (part of v4l-dvb drivers). |
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The firmware will be added lazily (on-demand) when you first use the driver. |
The firmware will be added lazily (on-demand) when you first use the driver. |
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After you plug-in the device on a USB 2.0 |
After you plug-in the device on a USB 2.0 port (it won't work with a USB 1.1) and use the driver for the first time (eg, by scanning channels), you may see something like this on dmesg: |
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usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 |
usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 |
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xc5000: firmware read 12332 bytes. |
xc5000: firmware read 12332 bytes. |
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xc5000: firmware upload |
xc5000: firmware upload |
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Connect the WinTV to a good antenna. |
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Then download some tools (using your distribution installer, yum, apt-get, etc): |
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yum install dvb-apps mplayer |
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Then scan your ATSC channels. For example, to scan ATSC channels in US do |
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scandvb /usr/share/dvb-apps/atsc/us-ATSC-center-frequencies-8VSB > channels.conf |
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Then copy the file <tt>channels.conf</tt> to the directory <tt>.mplayer/</tt> and test it on of one channel listed in <tt>channels.conf</tt>. For example, if you have a channel called KERA-HD, you do: |
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mplayer dvb://'KERA-HD' |
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Revision as of 02:12, 9 February 2009
Overal Impression
This is my first video capture device and I really like it. It currently works great/excellent for ATSC (digital broadcast) but, at the time of writting, it doesn't work at all for NTSC (analog TV/cable). There is a patch[1] already available that fixes this problem, but I haven't tried it. I use WinTV-HVR-950Q on very modest hardware: an old Dell Latitude D600 with 2GHz/500MB connected to a 1080p LCD TV. Both my TV and the WinTV are connected to an internal amplified antenna (TERK HDTVa). This WinTV tuner is as good as my TV tuner: both found the same channels and have about the same video quality (even for 1080i broadcasts).
Basic Installation
The xc5000 driver needed for this WinTV-HVR-950Q is already part of the latest Linux kernel (part of v4l-dvb drivers). You should upgrade to Linux kernel 2.6.27. First you need to download and install the xc5000 firmware:
wget http://www.steventoth.net/linux/xc5000/HVR-12x0-14x0-17x0_1_25_25271_WHQL.zip wget http://www.steventoth.net/linux/xc5000/extract.sh sh extract.sh cp dvb-fe-xc5000-1.1.fw /lib/firmware modprobe xc5000
The firmware will be added lazily (on-demand) when you first use the driver. After you plug-in the device on a USB 2.0 port (it won't work with a USB 1.1) and use the driver for the first time (eg, by scanning channels), you may see something like this on dmesg:
usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 usb 1-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice au0828: i2c bus registered tveeprom 0-0050: Hauppauge model 72001, rev B3F0, serial# 5280879 tveeprom 0-0050: MAC address is 00-0D-FE-XX-XX-XX tveeprom 0-0050: tuner model is Xceive XC5000 (idx 150, type 4) tveeprom 0-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) ATSC/DVB Digital (eeprom 0x88) tveeprom 0-0050: audio processor is AU8522 (idx 44) tveeprom 0-0050: decoder processor is AU8522 (idx 42) tveeprom 0-0050: has no radio, has IR receiver, has no IR transmitter hauppauge_eeprom: hauppauge eeprom: model=72001 xc5000 0-0061: creating new instance xc5000: Successfully identified at address 0x61 xc5000: Firmware has not been loaded previously DVB: registering new adapter (au0828) DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Auvitek AU8522 QAM/8VSB Frontend)... Registered device AU0828 [Hauppauge HVR950Q] usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=2040, idProduct=7200 usb 1-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=10 usb 1-3: Product: WinTV HVR-950 usb 1-3: Manufacturer: Hauppauge usb 1-3: SerialNumber: 000000000 xc5000: waiting for firmware upload (dvb-fe-xc5000-1.1.fw)... firmware: requesting dvb-fe-xc5000-1.1.fw xc5000: firmware read 12332 bytes. xc5000: firmware upload
Connect the WinTV to a good antenna. Then download some tools (using your distribution installer, yum, apt-get, etc):
yum install dvb-apps mplayer
Then scan your ATSC channels. For example, to scan ATSC channels in US do
scandvb /usr/share/dvb-apps/atsc/us-ATSC-center-frequencies-8VSB > channels.conf
Then copy the file channels.conf to the directory .mplayer/ and test it on of one channel listed in channels.conf. For example, if you have a channel called KERA-HD, you do:
mplayer dvb://'KERA-HD'