On Wednesday 03 January 2007 04:56, Mathew Boytim wrote:
> This is probably the wrong place for this particular question but
> I'll ask anyway - what is a recommended tuner+hardware_encoder card,
> and possibly hardware_decode and tv_out too, that pretty much
> 'works'.
If you want tv-out then the pvr350 is the only choice.
>
> I have a Myth box with two PVR-350's and as hard as this is to
> believe both cards went bad around the same time with the same
> problem (I posted about this about 6 months ago, but the cards are
> definitely bad). I was very happy with the cards prior to this. I
> don't really need two tuners, it was by accident that I ended up with
> two.
>
> When I put the box together a few years ago it took literally about 3
> weeks to get all the pieces working. When my hard drive failed some
> time ago I re-installed with KnoppMyth and, WOW, what a pleasant
> experience - the pvr350 was fully supported and the thing just worked
> - until the pvr350's decided to go south.
Could it be lack of proper cooling? The PVR350 can get hot.
>
> I wanted to put the myth box out of the living room where I can
> tolerate a larger case and more fans and decided to buy a MediaMVP to
> use as the myth frontend. This has turned out to be another bleeding
> edge adventure and probably not gonna work out for me. So that's why
> I still probably need tvout, although I could use one of my bum
> pvr350's since the tvout still works fine.
>
> I liked by the turnkey ease of KnoppMyth and the MediaMVP has worn me
> down again - I don't want any more battles. Can anyone recommend a
> card that pretty much 'just works'. Is a new PVR-350 the way to go,
> or will that mean the bleeding edge driver?
The latest PVR350 should work out of the box, with the possible
exception of the tuner: the newer Philips Mk5 tuners are not
autodetected by older kernels (<2.6.18). But with a simple ivtv module
option that can be fixed.
Hans
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Matt
>
>
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