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[Mark Haney]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> Mark Haney wrote:
>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>   
>>> Mark Haney wrote:
>>>     
>>>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>>>>     I have a box that plugs into a USB port which turns on this thing:
>>>>>
>>>>> [179616.248181] usb 2-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and 
>>>>> address 3
>>>>> [179616.977704] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
>>>>> karl at karl-hardy:~$
>>>>>
>>>>> This is dmsg | tail and I have no idea what ehci_hcd is and what it 
>>>>> does, if anything :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> The box is supposed to output video and audio in a MPEG-2 compression 
>>>>> formate. The darn thing will not work on Linux it appears.
>>>>>
>>>>> Karl
>>>>>
>>>>>     
>>>>>         
>>>> You have a box?  A BOX?  Could you be any less specific than that?  What 
>>>> kind of box?  What vendor? How can you say it won't work on linux until 
>>>> you know what it is and does?  'supposed' is not definitive enough to me 
>>>> to tell me anything.
>>>>
>>>> To answer the question you asked (and told the other person trying to 
>>>> help you, that his answer was worthless because of not having it) the 
>>>> ehci is the USB controller interface.  A quick google of EHCI would have 
>>>> told you that.  All this tells you is that a new USB 2.0 device was 
>>>> connected on address 3.  Every USB device will log that in dmesg.
>>>>
>>>> So, as far as I'm concerned, without adequate information, your question 
>>>> is worthless.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>>     Well the problem is when you know what the box is, you can't know 
>>> what it does. The little box says on it:
>>>
>>> AVerMedia AVerTV Hybrid Ultra USB and then DVD Quality . MPEG-2 
>>> Compression . Vista Ready . Digital TV/Analog TV/FM Radio
>>>
>>> It has an input that is for a TV antenna, A "S" connector input, A USB2 
>>> cable to the computer, an IR link to a TV-like controller, and 3 RCA 
>>> female connectors.
>>>     
>> Okay, let me get this straight, you bought something and you don't know 
>> what it does?
>>
>> Uh, never mind.  I'm not sure I even want to know.
>>
>> This device connects a video(TV) input (analog or digital cable or 
>> satellite, etc) to your desktop/laptop to convert it into an 
>> 'Entertainment center'.  It does nothing more than make your laptop the 
>> equivalent of a TV/DVR combo.
>>
>> While I"ve never used one, I'd give it a decent shot of working in 
>> linux.  It's not much different than pulling video from a video camera 
>> via USB and dumping it in MPEG-2 format.  Although, i'm not sure why 
>> you'd need that with MythTV available.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>   
>     Never heard of MythTV. This box on Vista allows you to record TV 
> programs on your HD and play them back fast forwarding through the 
> commercials. Improves TV viewing even above what the Cable people can 
> do. It began with the Tito Box you could lease from the Cable company 
> for big bucks.
> 
> Karl
> 
> 

That's what MythTV does.  It's an opensource app the makes your desktop 
act like Windows Media Center.  It can DVR TV shows, you can scan 
through, skipping commercials, etc.  I use it, when I actually get TV. 
I've not had it at my house since January, and personally haven't missed 
it.  I mean, all I watch is Midsomer Murders, Mythbusters and Avatar.

But seriously, the box you have does that same thing MythTv does, except 
it encodes the shows to MPEG format for you instead of expecting the CPU 
to do so.



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