Looking for an alternative for vdr-plugin-pvrinput to use my Hauppauge USB-Live2 analog video capture (USB)

Hi all.

I have been using VDR with a PVR-150 Card to capture TV channels, from a RCA connector connected to a Local TV Cable STB operator in my country.

I use lirc to change channels in my TV CABLE Set top box and vdr-plugin-pvrinput to feed vdr. I used w_pvrscan to generate a vdr channels.conf file.

Now I want to replicate same system in a raspberry but instead of a PVR-150 I have a Hauppauge USB-Live2 analog video capture (USB).

This USB-Live2 capture device is currently supported by linux since kernel 3.14 and up. and It is V4L2 compatible.

Please see: https://www.hauppauge.de/pctv-…en:linux:usb-live2-how-to

Unfortunately vdr-plugin-pvrinput neither w_pvrscan do not support this USB capture dongle. Is there any alternative? I want to continue using VDR.

Please advice and thanks in advance for any hint to use vdr with this capture adapter.

Francisco.

Zitat von mini73

The Hauppauge PVR USB2 is supported by pvrinput.

I don't know any other plugin which supports v4l sources.

http://vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/HauppaugePVR

Lars

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SurfaceCleanerZ Thanks for your response. PVR USB2 is a different model, I have a USB-Live2 dongle. It is an alternative but difficult to find nowadays.

Zitat von Dr. Seltsam

USB-Live2 has no hardware encoder and can't be used with pvrinput.

pvrinput only works with certain hardware encoders. Supported USB devices are: PVRUSB2, HVR1900 and HVR 1950. (In case of HVR 1950 make sure you don't get an unsupported successor: https://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/i…/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-1950)

All devices are no longer sold and even on ebay hard to find. The current status of HVR 1955 and 1975 is unclear - I saw patches for the pvrusb2 driver, but it seems they never made it into the linuxtv git.

Using an analogue device with software encoding under Linux will be difficult. A lot of people reported lip-sync problems. For usage with vdr (which is a DVB prog) you would furthermore need a way to deliver the stream to vdr. Maybe the iptv plugin in combination with a Script for vlc using the v4l2 protocol could be used for that. But I don't know of anybody who got this working in a stable und usable way.

My advise is to look for a used PVRUSB2.

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Many Thanks Dr. Seltsam. I will explore and study iptv plugin. I spent some hours trying to configure it but it seems it is not easy....

Could you please give me more details regarding: "Maybe the iptv plugin in combination with a Script for vlc using the v4l2 protocol could be used for that."?.

As far as I could see, I could define an entry in channels.conf (for example, to access an internet video stream) and with a vlc2iptv script I could play "or manipulate" that stream. The point is to use vlc2iptv script to "access" /dev/videoX stream video coming form USB-Live2?. Thanks in advance for your comments and clarification.

Again, thanks for your kind response.

I will be back with some questions. Thanks all.

Zitat von SurfaceCleanerZ

Hi,

Or use digital TV instead. Most cable networks have this already.

Regards Stefan

Thanks for the advice. My cable network set top box has a RCA output connector and a HDMI connector. Any HW recommendation regarding feeding from HDMI to vdr? Note: that HDMI signal is clear (not encrypted).

Zitat von M-Reimer

Even if this would be possible, you would only have one channel on the HDMI port...

Yes. That is true, similarly with an ir blaster I can change the channel in the set top box.

Zitat von don-baba

If you want to change from VDR you can look for nextPVR. There you can use your set-top-box with an digital HDMI input.

And the set top box will be controlled by the PVR.

https://github.com/sub3/NextPVR/wiki

NextPVR with HDPVR2 / Colossus

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Thanks don-baba. Interesting alternative I am going ti check it. It seems from video url that cx231xx decoder present in my USB-Live2 dongle is supported...

Is this colossus2 card supported by vdr?

https://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_colossus2.html

Best regards. Fco

Zitat von Dr. Seltsam

I never tested this myself. Maybe these links can help you:

https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Modules/v4l2/ (have a look in section examples)

This describes how to use the iptv-Plugin with Internet-Streams

https://sites.google.com/site/…dr-linux-ubuntu-14-04-lts

I guess you need to combine this 'anyhow'.

It is not easy. Another member failed:

IPTV + WEBCAM + vlc2iptv

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Thanks Dr. Seltsam . Great sources of information.

It is worth a try during this black down period of time.

I will study those links and let you know my progress.

Thanks again.