[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] tv tunner

[Catalin Trifu]

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 <catalin@××××××××××××.de> 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
>>
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