!! No sound in Kaffeine from HVR-1300
Enable multiverse in your sources.list.
Then:
sudo apt-get install cvs -d libxine-extracodecs

http://godard.b.free.fr/dotclear/index.php?2007/04/04/13-hauppauge-wintv-hvr1300-under-linux
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mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video:alsa:adevice=hw.1,0:amode=1:immediatemode=0:normid=2

@]

After weeks of struggling with this I finally found out that scan was lying above. At that time I had installed Kaffeine, which at first had the same problem as xine to get any picture. The breakthrough was when I discovered that Kaffeine was able to auto-scan my HVR-1300 card and suddenly it started working. Based on those channels I made my own initial-tuning-data-file for scan (se-Gothenburg-FreeToAir):

[@# Sweden - Göteborg FreeToAir
# T freq bw fec_hi fec_lo mod transmission-mode guard-interval hierarchy
T 546000000 8MHz 2/3 NONE QAM64 8k 1/8 NONE
T 786000000 8MHz 2/3 NONE QAM64 8k 1/8 NONE
T 522000000 8MHz 2/3 NONE QAM64 8k 1/8 NONE @]

Running scan with this made xine also happy

[@ sudo scan se-Gothenburg-FreeToAir > ~/.xine/channels.conf

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=11796405#post11796405
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removing and adding modules...
http://godard.b.free.fr/dotclear/index.php?2007/04/04/13-hauppauge-wintv-hvr1300-under-linux

http://archives.devshed.com/forums/linux-97/hvr-1300-cx88-blackbird-and-mythtv-2176896.html
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Using Monit to ensure MythBackend restarts after crashing.
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=11796405#post11796405

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Without the firmware, only the uncompressed cx88 device will work, the
blackbird device will not work without firmware.

You'll need a 'v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw' file with the encoder firmware just
like the ivtv driver needs it. Without it, the mpeg2 encoder chip on the
board is just sitting idle
http://archives.devshed.com/forums/linux-97/hvr-1300-cx88-blackbird-and-mythtv-2176896.html

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3474949
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After reading your response, I tried to focus myself on the firmware
needed for the HVR-1300 mpeg encoding to works.
In fact on my system, the firmware was in the wrong directory. It was
inside /lib/firmware/2.6.21, and the kernel module (blackbird?) was
expecting to find it inside /lib/firmware. I simply copied the needed
file inside this dir, and I have been capable of recording a mpg from
/dev/video1:
# v4l2-ctl -i 1
# v4l2-ctl -s pal
# cat /dev/video1 > test.mpg
# mplayer test.mpg
Two first lines are usefull for me to select composite input, and pal system.

here is an interresting url that you should read:
http://archives.devshed.com/forums/linux-97/hvr-1300-cx88-blackbird-and-mythtv-2176896.html
http://lists-archives.org/video4linux/19740-hvr-1300-problems-under-linux.html

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To all of you who have trouble with sound (usually when playing from analog) just use a command like sox to make a bridge between the alsa "card" built in into your capture card and your sound card. This works for me:
Code:

$ sox -c 2 -t alsa hw:1,0 -t alsa default

Let's analice it
-c 2 means we want to reproduce it on stereo
-t alsa means that input and output cards are both alsa
hw:1,0 is the name of the device made for your capture card (it may vary just try until you find it, "hw:2,0" , "hw:3,0" etc).
default is the name of the output card, usually if you have configured alsa to play multiple sounds that's the correct name, otherwise it may be something like hw:0,0 or hw:1,0 etc.

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Hauppauge_HVR_1300

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3474949

to the /etc/modules

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Hauppauge_HVR_1300

# modprobe cx88-dvb

add the

cx88-dvb

to the /etc/modules

@]


A workaround is loading the modules by hand
# modprobe dvb_core
# modprobe cx88-dvb

I'm now tying to capture something but gets an empty file.

[@ cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 > testvideo.mpg
@]

[@ ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 0 2007-10-04 22:45 file.ts
@]

This time xine gives me all sort of problems. Going to http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Tzap, but using scan instead of dvbscan (as stated above) I found some channels, but not all.
Since I had a channel.conf on my MediaServer (this is the frontend I'm doing) I copied that and could now lock a channel:

[@ tzap -r "SVT1"
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
tuning to 626000000 Hz
video pid 0x03fb, audio pid 0x03fa
status 01 | signal 6363 | snr 8000 | ber 00003fff | unc 00000013 |
status 1f | signal 6363 | snr ffff | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal 6363 | snr ffff | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal 6464 | snr ffff | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal 6363 | snr ffff | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK
@]

[@ sudo cp -p /lib/firmware/2.6.20-15-386/v4l-cx2341x-* /lib/firmware/

@]

!! Struggling with HVR-1300

Installing firmware

[@
sudo cp -p /lib/firmware/2.6.20-15-386/v4l-cx2341x-* /lib/firmware/

sudo apt-get install xine-ui

mkdir /root/.tzap
sudo scan /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/dvb-t/uk-WinterHill > /root/.tzap/channels.conf

cd .xine
ln -s ../.tzap/channels.conf

@]

http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/How_to_install_DVB_device_drivers

load driver
Update V4L drivers and sudo modprobe cx88-dvb and it all works fine.

[@ sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install dvb-utils dvbstream
sudo apt-get install xine-ui mplayer @]

We're now going to test the card by viewing some output. For this, we'll need some DVB utilities and a movie player. As everything is so easy with Ubuntu, why not try out both xine and mplayer...?

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install dvb-utils dvbstream
sudo apt-get install xine-ui mplayer