<quote who="Kevin Saenz">

> I am planning on building a PVR, and wondering what type of tv capture
> card people would recommend? At the moment I am using Mandrake, I am
> willing to use Debian or any other distro.  Currently I am looking at the
> hauppauge WinTV 350

Yes, get one of the cheap ones that doesn't have a hardware MPEG decoder,
that way you can do whatever you want with the transport stream coming off
the card. If you want to output to a TV, most modern video cards will do
SVHS out, or you can use a separate hardware decoder (like a DXR3).

I have a Twinhan-based VisionPlus DTV card, which very recent 2.6 kernels
support. It seems okay. ;-)

- Jeff

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