On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 16:28 -0600, Dennis J Harrison Jr wrote: > Hope I am not emailing you out of turn here :
Well, I usually ignore personal emails related to driver development that don't have a particular stated need for confidentiality - I like to keep development of linux drivers out in the open. So, I hope you don't mind that I Cc: the ivtv-users list because: a. you did your homework, :) b. you had a good question, and c. others may benefit from the answer. > I see the thread - > http://ivtvdriver.org/pipermail/ivtv-users/2008-July/008462.html > > I was wondering what your experience has been with this card. I have just had positive feedback and a fix submitted for the PVR-2100 from someone on the linux-media list who uses the card to tune to RF PAL-D stations. The latest fix to get the tuner working properly on this card can be found at: http://linuxtv.org/hg/~awalls/cx18-pvr2100 The DVR-3100H is essentially the same card except with DVB-T receive capability as well. > I am > looking to setup a mythtv box in the house - and I am stuck on > satellite. The only way I can see to get hd content out of the > receivers are hdmi and component. My understanding is that no hdmi > capture cards work properly under linux (hours of google - is all I > have to go on for this though). So that leaves component capture, and > the leadtek pvr2100 would be the best bang for the buck (I think?). Well keep in mind for this card that: a. you may need to buy a component video adjunct cable & bracket from Leadtek. It may not come standard with the card. b. the cx18 driver currently does not support Component video for any card. It would be a non-trivial effort for me to add it to the cx18 driver, but not terribly hard either. I do not have hardware with which to test, though. c. there may be some hardware specific GPIO settings to enable the component video inputs that I don't know about. I probably can ask Leadtek for those specific details if I need them - Leadtek is linux friendly in my experience. > As well as being on the pci bus instead of usb (like the hauppage > device that does component in). Which I figured would be the best of > both worlds? Well, there is an advantage to being out of the PC chassis when it comes to EMI reduction for RF signal reception. Also a PCIe card that meets your needs would likely be preferable to a PCI one. PCI slots are getting hard to come by nowadays. I hope that helps you make a decision. Regards, Andy > Thanks for your time, > Dennis Harrison _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
