Hi Linux friends,

I recently purchased a Pinnacle PCTV HD Pro Stick USB adaptor in effort to use it with MythTV for DVRing, etc. I chose this particular capture device because the MythTV wiki claims it has been tested and works (http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Video_capture_card). Things aren't going so smoothly though.

Please help!:

1) the usb capture device is not being recognized by viewing applications like TVtime, Kaffeine, VLC, etc. (all I get is a blue screen showing 'no capture device' messages) or even Fedora itself (ie. no such file as /dev/video0 even exists in the /dev/ directory!)

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2) I can't seem to successfully install the em28xx driver that I understand is required to make it work in Fedora 10 (according to this http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Pinnacle_..._Pro_USB_Stick).


I know the device is read by the USB port because when I run "lsusb" I get the following, which shows the Pinnacle device listed as at least plugged in (3rd one down):

Note also that the stick is plugged directly into one of the two USB ports on my motherboard, not a hub. The TV signal source is digital cable from a DirecTV satellite, which I know works because I checked it with a regular TV (Will I need the cable box? I have it if so...)

The system I'm using is a home-built dual Xeon with 3GB ram, 128GB nVidia card, 250GB drive, generic 5.1 sound card, and NO other video capture devices. I only recently assembled it and the Fedora 10 install is relatively fresh with 90% yum-installed software (and not much of it).

I installed MythTV using these instructions (http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Installing_MythTV_on_Fedora). The install goes fine but it doesn't seem to recognize the device when I run "mythtv-setup" (I'm also not sure what "type" of device should it be input as though. DVB?)

To resolve this I tried to install the em28xx driver using these instructions (http://mcentral.de/wiki/index.php5/Em2880), but when I get to the point where I need to run "make" it fails with the (huge) error shown in the attachment "FailedMakeResult.log".

When I check the available devices using the "dmesg" command, it clearly indicates the presence of the capture device (like "lsusb" did), but doesn't suggest that em28xx is installed or active. To see the "OutputFromDMESG.log" please just message me directly (I can't upload attachments here yet).


Any help that anyone can provide will be AWESOME.

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I have a similar problem, but I'm not sure if I should post it here or make a new topic. I've got the same stick (mine is 801e). I'm running Ubuntu, and I've tried following instructions from http://www.2nrds.com/digital-tv-in-l...em28xx-devices just to get Ubuntu to speak with the stick, and I went ahead and looked at mythtv's instructions, which were extremely confusing in some areas and nonexistent in others. It led me to http://mcentral.de/wiki/index.php5/Em2880, which was also confusing and didn't accomplish anything.

When I followed the instructions from 2nrds, Kaffeine never recognized a DVB device and kept saying "Can't bind info socket," whatever that means. (I know what those four words mean, but they make no sense when put together. I guess it wouldn't be an error message if it made sense!)

So I don't have the exact same problem and I'm using a different OS, but we're trying to get the same thing accomplished in the end, I guess. If anybody can help, I'd greatly appreciate it!

Thanks for your reply adanedhel728. I too have the 801e model stick. I tried the instructions at the first site you listed, and that is where I ran into the problems I had with the 'make' command for the em28xx driver. The second site I saw during my internet search to make this work, but did not try it because I'm using Fedora. We are on different platforms, but the same issue and same capture device are involved so I welcome your post.

I don't understand why this driver is not available through yum or pre-installed with Fedora/Unbuntu. Seems strange.

Hopefully someone out there will help us! I also have a post on FedoraForum.org (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...t=213325)since yesterday but nobody has replied there either!

You might look at www.isley.net/pvrusb2. It is for Hauppage but has same module. I followed the instructions line by line(and downloaded the recommended packages) and was running in two days.

JoAnne

Many thanks for the info, JoAnne. Only thing is that the link is broken. Will you please check it? I followed it and only got a BS domain for sale thing. Maybe it's like one letter off or something?

Ok, Try this http://www.isely.net/pvrusb2/pvrusb2.html

JoAnne