Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset
On 16:32 Fri 28 Sep , Patrick May wrote: On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 03:43:52PM -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: On 08:31 Fri 28 Sep , Patrick May wrote: I missed this thread earlier, so pardon me commenting to the OP so far down the thread. On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:00:33 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: BTW, if anyone knows of a cheap tuner card (50US preferably) that is decent and works with either PCI/USB/AGP, I would love to know. I'm currently using an air2pc card I picked up on eBay. I believe I paid around $20-30US. It pulls in all OTA ATSC signals just fine. I can't speak for it's abilities to work with QAM (Cable.) I'm controlling it with MythTV. Though I do recommend a decent processor. I used to run an Athlon 850MHz and it could not keep up with an HD (1080i, etc) signal. It will dump the stream to disk, just not display it (slow, pauses, etc.) Patrick I'm doing some looking and think I'm going to blow my budget and get a Haup. PVR-150, which I know is supported. Thanks for all of your help everyone. If you are planning to watch over the air (not cable) remember that analog will go off air on Feb 17, 2009. A little less than 17 months from now. Patrick Thats why I was looking for something else, but I ended up getting a WinTV-PVR-150 today. It wasn't too expensive, and I was able to get it (mostly) working for awhile. Oddly enough, since trying it with mythtv, it doesn't seem to want to work anymore, which is highly annoying since the thing took me about 2-3 hours to get to operate (requiring a few kernel recompiles and some firmware-hunting). Since I'm using cable, I figure if I need to, in 17 month I can get a converter, or afford to buy a better card. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset
I missed this thread earlier, so pardon me commenting to the OP so far down the thread. On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:00:33 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: BTW, if anyone knows of a cheap tuner card (50US preferably) that is decent and works with either PCI/USB/AGP, I would love to know. I'm currently using an air2pc card I picked up on eBay. I believe I paid around $20-30US. It pulls in all OTA ATSC signals just fine. I can't speak for it's abilities to work with QAM (Cable.) I'm controlling it with MythTV. Though I do recommend a decent processor. I used to run an Athlon 850MHz and it could not keep up with an HD (1080i, etc) signal. It will dump the stream to disk, just not display it (slow, pauses, etc.) Patrick pgplY1gRN6Lt8.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset
On 9/27/07, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:59:18 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:00:33 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: BTW, if anyone knows of a cheap tuner card (50US preferably) that is decent and works with either PCI/USB/AGP, I would love to know. Analogue or DVB? I've used a Freecom DVB dongle with Gentoo (amd64 and ppc) and it worked well. For a cheap PCI card, the KWorld cards are decent. Just a short warning: The US standards are a bit different... (but KWorld has ATSC equipment, too, not just DVB). And if commercial HDTV is to be received, special care has to be taken that everything is HDMI compliant -- I think there are only hardware based solutions to this problem, and it certainly won't be cheap -- at least not 50USD, I think... -hwh -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list You say HDMI compliant - do you mean HDCP compliant? That certainly makes more sense in the context. -- - Mark Shields
Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset
On 08:31 Fri 28 Sep , Patrick May wrote: I missed this thread earlier, so pardon me commenting to the OP so far down the thread. On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:00:33 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: BTW, if anyone knows of a cheap tuner card (50US preferably) that is decent and works with either PCI/USB/AGP, I would love to know. I'm currently using an air2pc card I picked up on eBay. I believe I paid around $20-30US. It pulls in all OTA ATSC signals just fine. I can't speak for it's abilities to work with QAM (Cable.) I'm controlling it with MythTV. Though I do recommend a decent processor. I used to run an Athlon 850MHz and it could not keep up with an HD (1080i, etc) signal. It will dump the stream to disk, just not display it (slow, pauses, etc.) Patrick I'm doing some looking and think I'm going to blow my budget and get a Haup. PVR-150, which I know is supported. Thanks for all of your help everyone. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 03:43:52PM -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: On 08:31 Fri 28 Sep , Patrick May wrote: I missed this thread earlier, so pardon me commenting to the OP so far down the thread. On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:00:33 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: BTW, if anyone knows of a cheap tuner card (50US preferably) that is decent and works with either PCI/USB/AGP, I would love to know. I'm currently using an air2pc card I picked up on eBay. I believe I paid around $20-30US. It pulls in all OTA ATSC signals just fine. I can't speak for it's abilities to work with QAM (Cable.) I'm controlling it with MythTV. Though I do recommend a decent processor. I used to run an Athlon 850MHz and it could not keep up with an HD (1080i, etc) signal. It will dump the stream to disk, just not display it (slow, pauses, etc.) Patrick I'm doing some looking and think I'm going to blow my budget and get a Haup. PVR-150, which I know is supported. Thanks for all of your help everyone. If you are planning to watch over the air (not cable) remember that analog will go off air on Feb 17, 2009. A little less than 17 months from now. Patrick pgpGIhVOefFLV.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset
On 15:15 Thu 27 Sep , Iain Buchanan wrote: On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 23:40 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: All great suggestions, except I'm hoping to see if it might work before I buy it. I really don't like the prospect of spending money on hardware just for things to turn out that it doesn't work in Linux. take your laptop into the store. Or if you don't have a laptop, take a livecd with lsusb, lshw, etc. on it. If they won't accommodate that, shop somewhere else ;) If you're buying online, find a local store that has the same card and do the same thing. If you don't have any local stores, ... um, post to this list!! HTH! -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot. -- George Bernard Shaw -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Tomorrow I think I'll stop into a store or two and see what they carry. I think I have a Knoppix disk somewhere, so I will try that. BTW, if anyone knows of a cheap tuner card (50US preferably) that is decent and works with either PCI/USB/AGP, I would love to know. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:00:33 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: BTW, if anyone knows of a cheap tuner card (50US preferably) that is decent and works with either PCI/USB/AGP, I would love to know. Analogue or DVB? I've used a Freecom DVB dongle with Gentoo (amd64 and ppc) and it worked well. For a cheap PCI card, the KWorld cards are decent. -- Neil Bothwick If this were an actual tagline, it would be funny. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset
Hi, On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:59:18 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:00:33 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: BTW, if anyone knows of a cheap tuner card (50US preferably) that is decent and works with either PCI/USB/AGP, I would love to know. Analogue or DVB? I've used a Freecom DVB dongle with Gentoo (amd64 and ppc) and it worked well. For a cheap PCI card, the KWorld cards are decent. Just a short warning: The US standards are a bit different... (but KWorld has ATSC equipment, too, not just DVB). And if commercial HDTV is to be received, special care has to be taken that everything is HDMI compliant -- I think there are only hardware based solutions to this problem, and it certainly won't be cheap -- at least not 50USD, I think... -hwh -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset
On 17:24 Thu 27 Sep , Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:59:18 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:00:33 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: BTW, if anyone knows of a cheap tuner card (50US preferably) that is decent and works with either PCI/USB/AGP, I would love to know. Analogue or DVB? I've used a Freecom DVB dongle with Gentoo (amd64 and ppc) and it worked well. For a cheap PCI card, the KWorld cards are decent. Just a short warning: The US standards are a bit different... (but KWorld has ATSC equipment, too, not just DVB). And if commercial HDTV is to be received, special care has to be taken that everything is HDMI compliant -- I think there are only hardware based solutions to this problem, and it certainly won't be cheap -- at least not 50USD, I think... -hwh -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list I was hoping for Digital since analog will be going the way of the Dodo in the next few years. HDTV isn't going to be received since my monitor won't handle it properly to start with. I looked at a few KWorld cards online, and saw a few Happ. that were less than 50US, but I'm going to do some more looking. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset
I hope this isn't the wrong place to ask this, but I need help finding a chipset for an admitedly cheap tuner. The product in question is the Sabrent TV-USB20 tuner (USB-powered). I have searched google for awhile, and I can't seem to find the chipset for this card, but mostly just results on very specific cards. All I need to know is if this tuner will work with Gentoo or not, really.The product in question is the Sabrent TV-USB20 tuner (USB-powered). I have searched google for awhile, and I can't seem to find the chipset for this card, but mostly just results on very specific cards. All I need to know is if this tuner will work with Gentoo or not, really.The product in question is the Sabrent TV-USB20 tuner (USB-powered). I have searched google for awhile, and I can't seem to find the chipset for this card, but mostly just results on very specific cards. All I need to know is if this tuner will work with Gentoo or not, really. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset
Hi! I don't know if it helps, but I looked at the windows driver and it's name (in the inf file) is tridvid -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:29:45 -0500 forgottenwizard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope this isn't the wrong place to ask this, but I need help finding a chipset for an admitedly cheap tuner. The product in question is the Sabrent TV-USB20 tuner (USB-powered). I have searched google for awhile, and I can't seem to find the chipset for this card, but mostly just results on very specific cards. All I need to know is if this tuner will work with Gentoo or not, really.The product in question is the Sabrent TV-USB20 tuner (USB-powered). I have searched google for awhile, and I can't seem to find the chipset for this card, but mostly just results on very specific cards. All I need to know is if this tuner will work with Gentoo or not, really.The product in question is the Sabrent TV-USB20 tuner (USB-powered). I have searched google for awhile, and I can't seem to find the chipset for this card, but mostly just results on very specific cards. All I need to know is if this tuner will work with Gentoo or not, really. Have you looked at 'lsusb' output yet? That usually gives data relevant to the chipset (for example, what it is and who made it ;) ) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 18:25 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote: On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:29:45 -0500 forgottenwizard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Have you looked at 'lsusb' output yet? That usually gives data relevant to the chipset (for example, what it is and who made it ;) ) Also take the : hex number (see 413c:3010 below) that lsusb spits out, and google that if lsusb itself gives unknown. It basically specifies the manufacturer and chipset/model. lsbusb -v is also helpful. i.e., lsusb ... Bus 003 Device 003: ID 413c:3010 Dell Computer Corp. Optical Wheel Mouse ... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset
On 08:43 Thu 27 Sep , W.Kenworthy wrote: On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 18:25 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote: On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:29:45 -0500 forgottenwizard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Have you looked at 'lsusb' output yet? That usually gives data relevant to the chipset (for example, what it is and who made it ;) ) Also take the : hex number (see 413c:3010 below) that lsusb spits out, and google that if lsusb itself gives unknown. It basically specifies the manufacturer and chipset/model. lsbusb -v is also helpful. i.e., lsusb ... Bus 003 Device 003: ID 413c:3010 Dell Computer Corp. Optical Wheel Mouse ... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list All great suggestions, except I'm hoping to see if it might work before I buy it. I really don't like the prospect of spending money on hardware just for things to turn out that it doesn't work in Linux. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 23:40 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: All great suggestions, except I'm hoping to see if it might work before I buy it. I really don't like the prospect of spending money on hardware just for things to turn out that it doesn't work in Linux. take your laptop into the store. Or if you don't have a laptop, take a livecd with lsusb, lshw, etc. on it. If they won't accommodate that, shop somewhere else ;) If you're buying online, find a local store that has the same card and do the same thing. If you don't have any local stores, ... um, post to this list!! HTH! -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot. -- George Bernard Shaw -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
