You will not be able to use the card to view your cable. About 2 years ago, they moved to a complete digital system that the old WinTV and Hauppage cards cannot read.
I very likely gave Free Geek that card, I have a very nice expensive Hauppage paperweight as well. -Bill Ensley www.bearprinting.com On 5/17/2012 5:50 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > So a couple days ago I went to the Free Geek Thrift Store to get a > sound card in the hope that it would alleviate the rumble problem I > have with the sound chip on the Asus motherboard. They were out of > stock of sound cards, but right next to the bin where the sound cards > were supposed to be was a Hauppage WinTV-PVR-150 with a $5 price tag. > It says "NTSC/NTSC/3 26552 LF, Rev F0A3." > > My desktop computer currently runs Lucid x86_64. All the computer ever > does is stream internet radio and play the occasional movie. But it > might be cool to be able to watch television on it. It is connected to > an Asus 22" monitor at 1920 x 1080. I have Comcast cable with basic TV > service, and an wall jack near the computer. > > The computer also has a messed up software RAID (mirror) where one > drive is not running. I haven't bothered to fix it. I set up the mirror > with mdadm when I first built the computer about four years ago just to > figure out how to do it. I have no real need to keep the RAID. > > My problem is that I never acquired any clues for television. There are > a ton of formats and many abbreviations of which I have no ken > whatsoever. > > Regardless of my cluelessness, I am thinking I will wipe out Lucid, wipe > out the RAID, and install Mythbuntu 12.04 on one of the two drives, > leaving the other for whatever. Before installing Mythbuntu I will > insert the Hauppage card. My plan is that Mythbuntu will say "Oh gee! A > WinTV-PVR-150!" and proceed to set it up flawlessly. > > Am I dreaming? Has anyone ever used one of these cards? > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
