[PLUG] USB 2.0 TV Tuner compatible with Linux?

[Steve Bonds]

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Matt Alexander lug-at-phxlinux.org |PDX Linux| wrote:

> I have a laptop running Linux and I'd like to hook up an antenna and be
> able to watch whatever TV shows are available over the airwaves.  Does
> anyone have recomendations for a USB 2.0 TV Tuner that works with Linux?
> Thanks, ~M

It looks like support for these is pretty poor.  I did find this:

http://pvrusb.sourceforge.net/

Which is a driver for the Hauppauge WinTV PVR USB tuner-- not to be
confused with the plain WinTV USB tuner.  The former streams mpeg2 over
the USB line, the latter some wierd internal format.

I have had good experiences with the bttv-based Hauppauge WinTV PCI cards
in the past, but I have no direct experience with the USB version.

  -- Steve