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