Here is just a note for the record. I am not at all sure what is really going on here, but in case anyone else runs into it...
I started with a pcHDTV-3000 card, and after the usual initial Myth newbie struggles, trials, and tribulations, I got it to work. The problem was I had the wrong card. Since I don't actually have any HD content right now, what I really needed was a hardware encoder card (but I didn't know about any of this stuff when I started, it just seemed nice to buy from a vendor that supports Linux over Windows). Myth worked, but recording or watching TV took up a lot of CPU with the software encoding, and I do want to use this machine for things other than Myth. So I got myself a PVR-150, and again went through the trials and tribulations, this time as an ivtv newbie, and got that to work. So far, so good. But I thought, why not have two tuners? I could use the PVR-150 most of the time, and only use the 3000 when I need a second tuner (PiP, watching while recording, or recording two shows at once). So I put the 3000 card back in, based on previous posts in this thread saying that people were able to make the two very different tuner cards work together. I never got very far with this, because here is the strange thing: as soon as I put the pcHDTV-3000 card back in the machine, my Conexant modem (with Linuxant driver, used primarily for faxing) is no longer recognized. I have no clue as to why a video capture card would interfere with a modem card, and this happens even before I enable any drivers (the 3000 card wasn't being recognized either because there was no driver set up for it yet). Remove the 3000 card, and the modem works again. Bizarre. So for now, I am running with just the one PVR-150 card. --Greg
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