On 4/19/06, Catalin Trifu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > I would like to get a TV Tunner installed on my gentoo linux box. > Could you please share some of your experience with setting up > a TV Tunner and which cards/software you used. >
I've had good louck with the Hauppauge PCR-150 TV Tuner card - between $60 - $80 (US), has hardware compression, so you don't chew up your CPU cycles - I'm running two of the cards on a Celeron 500 system with no noticable CPU overhead. They are regular analog broadcast input, and they have no TV output (If you need the TV output, I believe you have to go up to the PVR-350, not sure how much it is) - they also come with an IR remote, which is handy if you're doing the watching from the same box that the card is in - not quite as handy in a dedicated recording server such as mine. :) They use the ivtv driver, which is at least in portage, and I *think* that the latest in-kernel drivers contains a recent enough ivtv driver to support the card directly in the kernel, but I'm not positive. I use MythTV (USE="backendonly" for my server, USE="frontendonly" for all my home clients) for recording and viewing. If you decide to go the PVR-150 / MythTV route, let me know if you want some configuration tips, I can help out. HTH- James > > Thanks you, > Catalin > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- [email protected] mailing list
