Selected driver: v4l2 name: Video 4 Linux 2 input author: Martin Olschewski comment: first try, more to come -) Selected device: Hauppauge WinTV HVR 900 (R2) Tuner cap: Tuner rxs: Capabilities: video capture VBI capture device tuner audio read/write streaming supported norms: 0 = NTSC 1 = NTSC-M 2 = NTSC-M-JP 3 = NTSC-M-KR 4 = NTSC-443 5 = PAL 6 = PAL-BG 7 = PAL-H 8 = PAL-I 9 = PAL-DK 10 = PAL-M 11 = PAL-N 12 = PAL-Nc 13 = PAL-60 14 = SECAM 15 = SECAM-B 16 = SECAM-G 17 = SECAM-H 18 = SECAM-DK 19 = SECAM-L 20 = SECAM-Lc inputs: 0 = Television 1 = Composite1 2 = S-Video Current input: 1 Current format: YUYV v4l2: current audio mode is : MONO v4l2: ioctl set format failed: Invalid argument v4l2: ioctl set format failed: Invalid argument v4l2: ioctl set format failed: Invalid argument v4l2: ioctl query control failed: Invalid argument v4l2: ioctl query control failed: Invalid argument v4l2: ioctl query control failed: Invalid argument v4l2: ioctl query control failed: Invalid argument Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11: 1 = Opening video decoder: RAW Uncompressed Video Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied. You will not be able to use your remote control. MPlayer svn r34540 (Ubuntu), built with gcc-4.6 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. Here input 1 is the composite input of the card. I get a solid green screen and no picture. Mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video1:input=1:norm=PAL I am running Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 64 bit with all updates installed and the default unity environment. I have linux-firmware-nonfree and ivtv-utils installed. But in 12.04 there seems to be a problem. This used to work under ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I have this DVB+Analog usb tv tuner Hauppauge WinTV HVR-900 (r2).

Wintv hvr 900 hauppauge driver