Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600 support?

[bastafidli]

Is anybody using Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600 in Linux?
Is it working for NTSC/ATSC/QAM?
I see that there is multiple models available

model 01178: WinTV-HVR-1600 with NSTC/ATSC/QAM support, on-board IR receiver and blaster, and English manual
model 01181: WinTV-HVR-1600 with NSTC/ATSC/QAM support, on-board IR receiver and blaster, and French/Englsh manual
model 01101: WinTV-HVR-1600 MC board only with NSTC/ATSC/QAM support, without remote control, with FM radio
model 01183: WinTV-HVR-1600 MC-Kit with NSTC/ATSC/QAM support, Media Center certified remote control and FM radio

Is there any functional difference between them?
And finally, is this card worth to get for around $70 since the analog goes away next year?

[SprDtyF350]

There was no Linux driver for this card until recently. The driver is only Beta, and I don't know how well it works. The following is all I have found..

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Can I use the WinTV-HVR-1600 with Linux?

There is a new beta from LinuxTV.org with a Conexant cx23418 driver which supports the Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600 card.

The driver is available here:

http://www.linuxtv.org/hg/~hverkuil/cx18

The easiest way to build it is to get the tar.bz2 archive:

http://www.linuxtv.org/hg/~hverkuil/...ve/tip.tar.bz2

Unpack, 'make', 'make install' (as root), 'make unload' (as root) and run 'modprobe cx18'.

There is still a lot of work to be done, in particular there is nosupport for the ATSC stream. What is working is basic MPEG capturing, raw YUV capture and raw PCM capture. Also pretty much all of the controls that were also in ivtv are working with cx18.

The firmware needs to be extracted from the Windows Hauppauge HVR-1600 driver, available here:

http://hauppauge.lightpath.net/softw...e_cd_3.4d1.zip

Unzip, then copy the following files to the firmware directory and rename them as follows:

Drivers/Driver18/hcw18apu.rom -> v4l-cx23418-apu.fw Drivers/Driver18/hcw18enc.rom -> v4l-cx23418-cpu.fw Drivers/Driver18/hcw18mlC.rom -> v4l-cx23418-dig.fw

Note that if you get the message "Could not start the CPU" then edit cx18-firmware.c, go to line 350 and change the '#if 0' to '#if 1' and see if that helps. It is not clear to me whether that is needed or not, I get conflicting results.

[bastafidli]

Yes I saw that. What I am interested in is to know if it would work with Sage.