Hi, Thanks for the reply! Unfortunately, where I live (Romania), the Hauppage products are not sold, so I can not use it. The solution seems to be a Leadtek WinFast DV2000 which is built around a Conexant CX23881. How did you configure the card with mythtv ?
Thanks, Catalin James Ausmus wrote: > On 4/19/06, Catalin Trifu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> I would like to get a TV Tunner installed on my gentoo linux box. >> Could you please share some of your experience with setting up >> a TV Tunner and which cards/software you used. >> > > I've had good louck with the Hauppauge PCR-150 TV Tuner card - between > $60 - $80 (US), has hardware compression, so you don't chew up your > CPU cycles - I'm running two of the cards on a Celeron 500 system with > no noticable CPU overhead. They are regular analog broadcast input, > and they have no TV output (If you need the TV output, I believe you > have to go up to the PVR-350, not sure how much it is) - they also > come with an IR remote, which is handy if you're doing the watching > from the same box that the card is in - not quite as handy in a > dedicated recording server such as mine. :) > > They use the ivtv driver, which is at least in portage, and I *think* > that the latest in-kernel drivers contains a recent enough ivtv driver > to support the card directly in the kernel, but I'm not positive. > > I use MythTV (USE="backendonly" for my server, USE="frontendonly" for > all my home clients) for recording and viewing. > > If you decide to go the PVR-150 / MythTV route, let me know if you > want some configuration tips, I can help out. > > HTH- > > James > > >> Thanks you, >> Catalin >> >> -- >> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list >> >> > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list