I bought a WinTV-RVR 350 in October 2004 from Newegg. It arrived and works in Windows but Hauppauge has changed the chip set and the current ivtv drivers will not work with the chip set. Also the current stable drivers are not approved for the 2.6.X kernels. The last news update was May 2004 and I could not get the cvs version of the driver to work with any kernel. Others on the wiki and forum have had limited success with the beta drivers and the new chip set.

Linux Compatible yes for older cards, limited for the currently sold version.

http://ivtv.sourceforge.net/
http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-index.php
http://www.shspvr.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=30

Been poking at a PVR-350 for most of the weekend. Here's the setup;

Via EPIA-M10000 256M RAM, 6GB root drive (reiserfs) and 80GB media drive (xfs)
PVR-350
ivtv-0.2.0-rc3f - using tuner type 47
mythtv-0.17

Having some grief with random lockups while watching tv out from the PVR-350 on MythTV. Seems to happen when when there's a lot of static or when rewinding/ff live tv. Can't make any bold claims about the quality of the video as I'm running off broadcast (antenna) TV in a weak reception area. As for the lockups, it con sometimes be cleared by stopping X, killing mythfrontend, unloading ivtv-fb/ivtv/lircd and reloading them and firing everything back up again. Not elegant, but manages to save me from rebooting.

It would be nice to see better (any?) support from Hauppauge as most of the people I know using this are doing so in some sort of MythTV project.

I and others have the same problem. A couple of us plan to look into the issues to see if we canovercome them (with a great deal of help from our friends).

Send me your emaiol address for a future update to:

alan@asandco.co.uk

Regards