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There is support for the WinTV-PVR series of cards in Freevo; the WinTV-PVR 250/350 cards have recently been getting a lot more attention.
IVTV Driver
The drivers for these cards are under active development and are becoming stable, see ![[WWW]](../modern/img/moin-www.png) http://ivtv.sourceforge.net . Please make sure your card and the ivtv driver are working properly before trying to use it in Freevo. That is, download and install the latest ivtv driver; you'll find information on this in the
 http://ivtv.sourceforge.net . Please make sure your card and the ivtv driver are working properly before trying to use it in Freevo. That is, download and install the latest ivtv driver; you'll find information on this in the ![[WWW]](../modern/img/moin-www.png) IVTV documentation and the
 IVTV documentation and the ![[WWW]](../modern/img/moin-www.png) IVTV FAQ. Basically, this boils down to:
 IVTV FAQ. Basically, this boils down to: 
- Compiling and installing the modules (i.e. make && make install) 
- Making sure you have the firmware for the cards in /lib/modules. There is a utility included with the driver package that will help you with this called ivtvfwextract.pl. Run it with the location of the windows driver package as its only argument (defaults to /mnt/cdrom) and it will do the rest. 
- Loading and testing the driver 
- Putting the options and module dependancies into your modules.conf file 
- Setting up the module(s) for autoloading on boot 
The MythTV site offers an excellent page that describes how to ![[WWW]](../modern/img/moin-www.png) install a PVR-250/350 on Mandrake 9.1. It may be helpful for other distros as well.
 install a PVR-250/350 on Mandrake 9.1. It may be helpful for other distros as well. 
TV-Out
If you want Freevo to use the WinTV PVR card's TV-out, you can use the TV-out as a standard framebuffer device for X. Once you get X working with this framebuffer device freevo works with it just like any other X display. This is explained in the ![[WWW]](../modern/img/moin-www.png) TvOutHowto page of the IVTV Wiki.
 TvOutHowto page of the IVTV Wiki. 
LIRC / WinTV PCR remote control
After setting up the IVTV driver, you might want to set up LIRC, too. My lirc came with a suitable lircd.conf.hauppauge config file which actually contains two separate descriptions of remote controls. The second one matches my remote (that came with the PVR 350). See Configuration / Lirc for more info.
Freevo setup for IVTV
See AnalogTvConfig