Install Hauppauge WinTV-PVR 350 under Debian Linux

David Hausheer

Download latest IVTV driver

wget http://dl.ivtvdriver.org/ivtv/archive/0.4.x/ivtv-0.4.6.tar.gz

Install Kernel Headers for building modules

apt-get install kernel-build-2.6.8-3

Install IVTV driver

tar -zxf ivtv-0.4.6.tar.gz cd ivtv-0.4.6/ make && make install

Download Firmware

wget http://dl.ivtvdriver.org/ivtv/firmware/firmware.tar.gz

Install Firmware

apt-get install hotplug tar xzf firmware.tar.gz cp v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw v4l-cx2341x-init.mpg v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/

Module options

vi /etc/modutils/ivtv alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-0 ivtv

Load Module

depmod -a modprobe ivtv

Test Card

cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg

IVTV Utilities

ivtvctl -z 3 # select language ivtv-tune -f 175.6 ivtv-tune -teurope-west -cE5

VLC

vlc -I dummy pvr:/dev/video0:norm=pal:size=720x576:frequency=210910:bitrate=8000000:maxbitrate=12000000 --sout '#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,vb=3072,scale=1.0,deinterlace,cropleft=20,cropright=20}:duplicate{dst=std {access=udp,mux=ts,url=127.0.0.1:8000}}'

Install Remotes

apt-get install lirc lirc-modules-source wget http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/hauppauge/lircd.conf.hauppauge

Further Infos

http://ivtvdriver.org