The PVR 500 tuner came today. Woot! So I got right to installing it. Generally things went without a hitch. All the settings fell into place, and it was surprisingly well documented. The only somewhat hard part came when I didn’t get any video with live TV, which was kind of big.
Then, I realized I didn’t have a mpeg decoder defined. Once I got that, everything worked. then I got the remote working. the only place it’s lacking right now is with the TV-out. I thought my GeForce2 could cut it, but I think I was wrong. I’m going to try more fully featured drivers, and a different mpeg decoder and we’ll see. If that doesn’t work, I’m trying to decide between a new video card and a Xcard media thing. The Xcard will give me much better TV-out and hardware decoding for mpeg2, mpeg4, divx, and a slew of other things. We’ll see how the better drivers work out and go from there.
