Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2250

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An ATSC PCIe card from Hauppauge.

Support for its digital side was added to Hg in September 2009.

Overview/Features

Dual hybrid digital/analog tuners, low profile.

• Single slot PCI Express (PCIe) X1 board, half height.
• Two analog tuners, each with their own hardware encoders
• Two digital TV receivers for ATSC or clear QAM
• Dual built-in hardware MPEG-2 encoders.

Components Used

• NXP SAA7164

• Pair of NXP TDA18271HD tuner chips.

Could someone who has this card please take a good look at the board and list all the chips here?

The REV C2F2 has

• NXP SAA7164E/3
• Pair of Conexant CX24228-21Z demodulators

The REV C3F2 has

• NXP SAA7164E/3
• Samsung 846 - K4H561638J-LCCC - H56162YI369GDU
• Pair of Conexant CX24228-21Z - NI3W4H - 0811 KR
• 0916 - 3506 - EFE - N8578
• 24C3265I- 408(4)9E - not sure on the (4)
• Pair of LD1117 - C822

Other Images

Top view

Making it Work

In September 2009, Steven Toth at kernellabs submitted code to the linux kernel mailing list that adds support for the NXP Saa7164 PCIe A/V bridge used by the Hauppauge HVR-2250 card. See instructions at Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2200. Note that support is still limited to DVB-T / ATSC / QAM digital TV only; there is no analog support yet.

Development continues at http://www.steventoth.net/blog/products/hvr-2250/

Firmware

The windows driver and linux firmware extraction scripts are up on http://www.steventoth.net/linux/hvr22xx

Drivers

Drivers are expected to be included in Linux 2.6.32.

In the meantime, for stable tree hg clone http://kernellabs.com/hg/saa7164-stable/

For Development tree hg clone http://kernellabs.com/hg/~stoth/saa7164-dev/

then... make menuconfig edit as needed make make install reboot

Sample Kernel Output

provide the relevant portion of dmesg here

External Links

• Hauppauge Product Page