I've found the PVR-250's to be the easiest to setup and configure for TV capture. I went through the arduous task of setting up a PVR-350 for display output along time ago (back when the latest ivtv-drivers were at .3.7c). The setup might be easier now.
I found the easiest way to setup TV out is through the video card. My nvidia 5200 had a dongle that let me connect a Composite cable to it. It just required some minor tweaking of the xorg.conf file. -Rob On 1/3/07, AWT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- -Rob Ben Franklin Quote: "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
