I have the Hauppauge 150 MCE. Worked out of the box, no tweaking necessary and quality is awesome. My 2 cents worth.
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 19:56 -0800, 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'. > > 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. > > 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? > > Many thanks, > > Matt > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
