[PLUG] TV tuner card experiences/recommendations?

Wil Cooley wcooley at nakedape.cc
Thu Sep 13 18:11:22 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 10:15 -0700, Wil Cooley wrote:

> So, things to look out for:
>  o Good mainline kernel support. It can be hard to determine, really,
> given the state of V4L2 and IVTV stuff, although I think that has
> changed in recent kernels.
>  o ATSC receiver.
>  o If you want NTSC and don't have a very fast machine, get one that
> includes an MPEG2 encoder.
>  o Do you need IR/remote control support?

In all my long-winded rambling, I neglected to mention that this looks
like the best bet:

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Silicondust_HDHomeRun

Here is also more information about video capture cards:

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Video_capture_card

Wil
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