Haupauge Win-TV Streaming

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I have a Haupauge Win-TV (HVR-850) USB dongle. It connects to a 75 Ohm terrestrial antenna. VLC tries to connect and activates an indicator light on the device. Then times out. No workey! Under Ubuntu 12.4 64 bit. It works in Win7 with Haupauge install.

In the U.S. we have digital broadcast using ATSC, 6 MHz BW, 8-VSB, MPEG-2, and the listed frequencies. Using "Open Capture Device" and not able to make it work. Do I use Transponder/Multiplex frequency for station frequency, and would that be centered in middle of the band? Going through "Advanced" MPEG layers A, B, C no luck with 8-VSB.

Cannot get "Video for Linux 2" to work without error message.

Any ideas?

P.S I coppied this over form VLM post.

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Haupauge under windows has drivers, but they offer nothing for Linux. I do not think the device is flash upgradeable with firmware. I can not find what chip set it uses. It is USB 2.0 so it must convert analog to digital at the device. Surely it receives commands to change channels etc. and the like.

The windows registry has about two dozen decoder options. Few of which I can relate to VLC settings. I suspect it needs a driver to take command line options and address them properly to the device ports. Hum... Is there any way to load the Win driver (86x) to process over to Linux and stuff the commands into the device?

P.S I coppied this over from VLM (Streaming Haupauge TV Dongle)

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Like SAMBA is between Linux and Windows accept one for windows drivers. That would be an interesting Open Source project.

P.S. Coppied over from VLM (Streaming Haupauge TV Dongle). End ot copy.