What I did to get analog tv tuner, composite, or s-video capture to work:

Fresh install of mythbuntu 9.04
Extract and install the firmware files for HVR-1950:

Download http://www.isely.net/downloads/fwextract.pl to ~/Desktop
Insert the CD that came with your HVR-1950 (contains windows drivers) [assume it mounted as /media/cdrom0]
cd ~/Desktop
chmod u+x fwextract.pl
./fwextract.pl /media/cdrom0/Drivers/
sudo copy *.fw /lib/firmware

Run mythtv-setup using sudo

sudo mythtv-setup
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