Re: Newbie video editing question
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 09:47:53PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> On 11/29/10 16:52, Rob Owens wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 09:31:10PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote:
>>> First off, I'm a video editing newbie. Not a linux newbie. I've been
>>> running Debian since Bo.
>>>
>>> I have a lot of video tapes lying around and I am afraid they will
>>> degrade over time. Also, since they are not making tapes any more (or
>>> VCRs?) I expect it will be difficult to repair my two VCRs when they
>>> start to die on me. So I want to convert my analog tapes to digital
>>> files while I can and write them out to DVD.
>>>
>>> When I mentioned this to a friend, he pulled out a WinTV card, using a
>>> Hauppauge PVR-250. Are there drivers for this in the standard kernel
>>> tree, or do I need to get them from somewhere?
>>>
>> This works in Lenny and is auto-detected.
>
> Well, I have installed the card, but it is not initializing correctly.
> For one thing, in appears to be a PVR-150 (not PVR-250). These appear
> to be the pertinent output sections of dmesg showing that, and also
> showing what looks like a successful initialization and an unsuccessful
> loading of firmware at the very end:
>
I forgot about the firmware. I think this is the page I used for
guidance when I built my MythTV system with a PVR-150:
http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Firmware
-Rob
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