My two cents would be to definitely look for something well supported. Buy something that isn't, and you may find you've wasted your money. I bought a used PVR 350 and have been reasonably pleased with it. (Long live SD) Even then, I still had a difficult time getting it working with my set top box.
On 11/11/2010 07:25 PM, Preston Hagar wrote: > I've had Freevo running for some time now on an Ubuntu Hardy machine. > I have been using it mainly for playing ripped videos, with a little > use for music and photos. I have, so far, had the TV plugin disabled. > > I would like to start using the TV plugin and recording OTA digital TV > signals here in the US. I get really good reception with a lot of > channels, so I know that shouldn't be a problem. > > I need a TV tuner. I would really prefer a USB one, so that if I get > it and don't have the time or energy to get it or Freevo configured > correctly, I can just connect it to my Windows 7 laptop and let > Windows Media Center do the work. Ideally, I would like it to be as > inexpensive as possible (single tuner is fine), but I am willing to > pay a little more for something that just works. > > I have tried searching high and low and can't find any clear answers > as to a TV tuner that will work reliably with Linux. The Freevo > hardware page: > > http://doc.freevo.org/Hardware > > seems to either just list analog cards (which, if I understand things > correctly, isn't broadcasted anymore in the US) and DVB cards, which I > think is different than what is broadcast in the US. I also looked at > the cards here: > > http://freevo.sourceforge.net/hardware/recommended.php > > but most are either not digital (or I can't figure out for sure), not > USB, or not sold/made anymore. > > I would be willing to try a PCI based solution, if I could get it > cheap (even off ebay or something) for around $25 or less. Otherwise > I am hoping to stay in the $50-$60 range if at all possible. > > I came across the Hauppauge 1200 WinTV HVR-850 HDTV Tuner Stick which > I saw a few reports that it might work in Linux, but then I saw others > that seem to say that the newest versions don't. > > I would appreciate anyone's pointers or guidance. > > Thanks! > > Preston > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Centralized Desktop Delivery: Dell and VMware Reference Architecture > Simplifying enterprise desktop deployment and management using > Dell EqualLogic storage and VMware View: A highly scalable, end-to-end > client virtualization framework. Read more! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-eql-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Freevo-users mailing list > Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Centralized Desktop Delivery: Dell and VMware Reference Architecture Simplifying enterprise desktop deployment and management using Dell EqualLogic storage and VMware View: A highly scalable, end-to-end client virtualization framework. Read more! http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-eql-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
