Re: [linux-dvb] Need suggestions for TV card
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 21:05 +0100, Carsten Aulbert wrote: [CUT] My only analogue TV-card experience is with the Hauppauge PVR-350 which is a very good card and the ivtv drivers are mature. I will take this in consideration. If you have a DVB-T broadcast antenna relatively close-by then a Nova T500 should work fine. If you scan this mailing list you will find the this card might be problematic in bad weather conditions and or if the reception is bad in general. I'm living about 1.5km away from the sender, so I think I cannot comment on that. I don't have a broadcast antenna on sight so I guess it is better to exclude this product. On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 10:01 +1100, Robin Rainton wrote: Carsten Aulbert wrote: Look at the linux-dvb Wiki and look if the card of your choise is listed there. Although be aware that this is no guarantee. I recently purchased an MSI TV @ Anywhere which was listed in the Wiki, only to find MSI had changed a few things and the card was now V1.1. Eventually I've managed to get this working (see mails on this list about that) but it's not stable as yet. That is another thing to keep in mind. Thank you both for the suggestions. As I said on my original post, my priority is to get at least the analog signal so I'll start to search around based on those suggestions. If by any chance someone has any suggestion for cards that support the digital signal, I'll be glad to hear them. :-) Thank you again for the suggestion. -- Marco Di Fresco http://marcodifresco.interfree.it/default.html signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
Re: [linux-dvb] Need suggestions for TV card
I live in Italy (north-east). I don't know if it was just a bad coincidence or a bad support by Pinnacle for the Italian TV frequencies, but a year ago (before getting the AverTV USB 2.0 Plus) I tried a Pinnacle card (I don't remember the model now) but it could not catch any channel (and I was still using Windows at that time, so there were no issues for the driver availability). -- Marco Di Fresco http://marcodifresco.interfree.it/default.html On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 12:16 -0800, John Massengale wrote: What country are you in? If you are in the United States, I would recommend the Pinnacle 800i. The tuner on it will pick up over the air digital stations better than any other card I have tried. 2008/1/23 Marco Di Fresco [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 21:05 +0100, Carsten Aulbert wrote: [CUT] My only analogue TV-card experience is with the Hauppauge PVR-350 which is a very good card and the ivtv drivers are mature. I will take this in consideration. If you have a DVB-T broadcast antenna relatively close-by then a Nova T500 should work fine. If you scan this mailing list you will find the this card might be problematic in bad weather conditions and or if the reception is bad in general. I'm living about 1.5km away from the sender, so I think I cannot comment on that. I don't have a broadcast antenna on sight so I guess it is better to exclude this product. On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 10:01 +1100, Robin Rainton wrote: Carsten Aulbert wrote: Look at the linux-dvb Wiki and look if the card of your choise is listed there. Although be aware that this is no guarantee. I recently purchased an MSI TV @ Anywhere which was listed in the Wiki, only to find MSI had changed a few things and the card was now V1.1. Eventually I've managed to get this working (see mails on this list about that) but it's not stable as yet. That is another thing to keep in mind. Thank you both for the suggestions. As I said on my original post, my priority is to get at least the analog signal so I'll start to search around based on those suggestions. If by any chance someone has any suggestion for cards that support the digital signal, I'll be glad to hear them. :-) Thank you again for the suggestion. -- Marco Di Fresco http://marcodifresco.interfree.it/default.html ___ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
Re: [linux-dvb] Need suggestions for TV card
Hi Marco Marco Di Fresco wrote: I am looking to get at least the support for the analog TV, but it would be great if I can also watch digital TV. I don't know if it matters (maybe for the local digital TV standad and for the market availability of the product), but I live in Italy (north-east). My only analogue TV-card experience is with the Hauppauge PVR-350 which is a very good card and the ivtv drivers are mature. If you have a DVB-T broadcast antenna relatively close-by then a Nova T500 should work fine. If you scan this mailing list you will find the this card might be problematic in bad weather conditions and or if the reception is bad in general. I'm living about 1.5km away from the sender, so I think I cannot comment on that. Look at the linux-dvb Wiki and look if the card of your choise is listed there. HTH Carsten ___ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
Re: [linux-dvb] Need suggestions for TV card
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 21:05 +0100, Carsten Aulbert wrote: Marco Di Fresco wrote: I am looking to get at least the support for the analog TV, but it would be great if I can also watch digital TV. I don't know if it matters (maybe for the local digital TV standad and for the market availability of the product), but I live in Italy (north-east). My only analogue TV-card experience is with the Hauppauge PVR-350 which is a very good card and the ivtv drivers are mature. If you have a DVB-T broadcast antenna relatively close-by then a Nova T500 should work fine. If you scan this mailing list you will find the this card might be problematic in bad weather conditions and or if the reception is bad in general. I'm living about 1.5km away from the sender, so I think I cannot comment on that. This card, outside of very poor reception, has reached a pretty good level of stability, thanks to the great people on this list. As you can read in the recent posts, it appears that only small tweaks are needed here and there. Dual tuners are great, and with MythTV supporting the recording of multiple channels inside a single mux (i.e. more than 2 recordings at the same time if the channels are sharing muxes), in trunk, things are even better. Be sure to build a recent tree with the few additional patches that did not make it yet: http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-NOVA-T-500 Nico http://www.youplala.net/linux/home-theater-pc ___ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
Re: [linux-dvb] Need suggestions for TV card
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 22:12 +, Nicolas Will wrote: This card, outside of very poor reception Outside of pretty poor reception ares. The reception of the card seems fine AFAIK. Being a non-native speaker leads to bad wording, sorry. Nico ___ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
Re: [linux-dvb] Need suggestions for TV card
Carsten Aulbert wrote: Look at the linux-dvb Wiki and look if the card of your choise is listed there. Although be aware that this is no guarantee. I recently purchased an MSI TV @ Anywhere which was listed in the Wiki, only to find MSI had changed a few things and the card was now V1.1. Eventually I've managed to get this working (see mails on this list about that) but it's not stable as yet. Cheers, Rob ___ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
Re: [linux-dvb] Need suggestions for TV card
Am Dienstag, den 22.01.2008, 10:01 +1100 schrieb Robin Rainton: Carsten Aulbert wrote: Look at the linux-dvb Wiki and look if the card of your choise is listed there. Although be aware that this is no guarantee. I recently purchased an MSI TV @ Anywhere which was listed in the Wiki, only to find MSI had changed a few things and the card was now V1.1. Eventually I've managed to get this working (see mails on this list about that) but it's not stable as yet. Cheers, Rob Hi Rob, to your new card version Hartmut or me should try to come back for further investigations. Do you have any analog TV broadcast left and can eventually also test and report on that? We have to test if there is really a LowNoiseAmplyfier on it, seems so. Also Hartmut predicted already 9 months back, that we likely will see a change to use the tda8290 i2c gate to the tuner on this stuff, like most others do. This you have confirmed already with your recent testing. Thanks, Hermann ___ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
[linux-dvb] Need suggestions for TV card
Hi all, I guess this is a very redundant topic, but I can't see a way to search the mailing list archives and Google isn't helping much; sorry about that. After more than 3 month of failing to make my AverTV USB 2.0 Plus to work I decided that probably it would be easier if I look for another TV card that is better supported under Linux. I am looking to get at least the support for the analog TV, but it would be great if I can also watch digital TV. I don't know if it matters (maybe for the local digital TV standad and for the market availability of the product), but I live in Italy (north-east). I'm currently using Kubuntu 7.10 64 Bit. An external TV card would be preferable (but not obligatory - I still have some free slot on the motherboard, but not so many so I prefer to keep them for internal-only devices). What would you suggest? Thank in advance. -- Marco Di Fresco http://marcodifresco.interfree.it/default.html signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
