[gentoo-user] OT- tv tuner cards

[gentoo-user] OT- tv tuner cards

[maxim wexler]

Hi group,

Do these things work very well? What's a good one? Is
it gentoo-friendly.

I'll be using it with a Viewsonic 17" LCD with a
digital connector and a ATI Radeon 256M vid card. 

I saw one work back in 2000 and thought the picture
quality quite poor. Have they improved much since
then?

-Maxim

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT- tv tuner cards

[Nick Rout]

On 10/3/2006, "maxim wexler" <blissfix@yahoo.com> wrote:



>Hi group,

>

>Do these things work very well? What's a good one? Is

>it gentoo-friendly.

>

>I'll be using it with a Viewsonic 17" LCD with a

>digital connector and a ATI Radeon 256M vid card.

>

>I saw one work back in 2000 and thought the picture

>quality quite poor. Have they improved much since

>then?

>

>-Maxim



What is your TV source? Digital satellite? (DVB-S) Digital terrestial?

(DVB-T), analogue terrestial? Cable? What country are you in?





If you are after an analogue card I recommend a hauppauge PVR 150 or 250

or 350 or 500. The ivtv drivers can be flaky, but are improving all the

time. The cards have a hardware mpeg-2 encoder, meaning you can get

encoded video without using much cpu time.



Also most stuff based on the bt878 chipset will work via the bttv driver.



If it is DVB stuff you are afdter, look to the linuxtv.org website.



You'll also get a lot of help on the mythtv mailing lists.

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT- tv tuner cards

[Mark Knecht]

On 10/2/06, maxim wexler <blissfix@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi group,
>
> Do these things work very well? What's a good one? Is
> it gentoo-friendly.
>

Maxim,
   I have a MYthTV server with two cards in it. One is a Hauppage
PVR-150 and the other is a PVR-250. They are both reasonably good
quality and run pretty well with the newer versions of the ivtv driver
which is in portage.

   If you need more info let me know on the list or privately. Either is fine.

Cheers,
Mark
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT- tv tuner cards

[Iain Buchanan]

On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 18:04 -0700, maxim wexler wrote:
> Hi group,
> 
> Do these things work very well? What's a good one? Is
> it gentoo-friendly.

if it's linux-friendly, it's gentoo-friendly :)

> I'll be using it with a Viewsonic 17" LCD with a
> digital connector and a ATI Radeon 256M vid card. 

so long as it's a reasonable machine, you should be fine.  I run
fullscreen TV on a 17in on a GeForce FX5200, and and athlon 1700 XP with
no worries.

> I saw one work back in 2000 and thought the picture
> quality quite poor. Have they improved much since
> then?

In my experience (I've only tried a couple of cards) the quality is
generally related to your signal - put up a good antennae and some
decent cabling, and you should be hunky dory!

However, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a card out there somewhere
that gave you a crap picture no matter what.

Look for reviews on linux sites - they should tell you how easy they are
to get working, and how well they work.

I personally like the COMPRO DTV-300 - it does digital terrestrial, and
analog in one card, and it's fairly cheap.  Not much for hardware
encoding though.  But that can easily be made up with a beefier system.

HTH,
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT- tv tuner cards

[Iain Buchanan]

On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 11:54 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:

> I personally like the COMPRO DTV-300

sorry, that's really a Compro Videomate DVB-T300

:)
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT- tv tuner cards

[Jerry McBride]

On Monday 02 October 2006 21:04, maxim wexler wrote:
> Hi group,
>
> Do these things work very well? What's a good one? Is
> it gentoo-friendly.
>
> I'll be using it with a Viewsonic 17" LCD with a
> digital connector and a ATI Radeon 256M vid card.
>
> I saw one work back in 2000 and thought the picture
> quality quite poor. Have they improved much since
> then?
>
> -Maxim
>

I'm runing three Hauppage PVR-150 capture cards on a mythtv media server with 
Gentoo. No problems. Everthing needed is in portage. Also running mvpmc for 
watching recorded videos on the big screen in the living room. Again, no real 
problems and most all of the software for that is in portage, except for the 
mvpmc firware.

About the best high light of my hobby aspect for linux.

Cheers.

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT- tv tuner cards

[maxim wexler]

> What is your TV source? Digital satellite? (DVB-S)
> Digital terrestial?
> (DVB-T), analogue terrestial? Cable? What country
> are you in?
> 

Outdoor pole-mounted antenna. It brings in the two
local(relatively) stations quite well depending on the
atmospherics. No cable in this neck of the woods(rural
British Columbia) yet. My neighbours all have dishes
but I'm not sure I want to pay for 50X the pap I can
consume for free now.

-Maxim

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