I Use one of these cards. I find sometimes they seem to have a bandwith problem craming the HD through the computer to watch or record. I get it on an old AMD 2gHz chip and a new AMD quad core. A similar card (put with PCIE rather than PCI) had a similar problem, so that may not be the card. Apart from that these cards work great on kubuntu with mytubuntu extensions - hwich is what I run. I think they run out of the box now, when I set it up it a while ago needed to be told what card number it was.
I had talked to some developers a while ago and helped them develop the analouge tuner models for this card (I only asked and tested patches, no idea about how it works) so that part worked flawlessly with their patches. This then ofcourse got lost in an upgrade :( but it is now part of a bleeding edge release I do belive, but don't think it has filtered through to ubuntu yet. Biggiset issue I've noticed with this card is the quality of the tuner. We have a Sony TV, only analogue, but clearly has a much better tuner in it. It gets more TV stations, with good (analogue) reception. This card... not so good on the tuning, and reception poor in heavy weather. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be much choice in the quality of the cards available. Just make sure you have a good aerial or live close to the towers. Cheers Jon On Sat, 9 May 2009 10:54:32 pm elliott-brennan wrote: > Hi all, > > Looks like I'll be trying out something like the > Leadtek 2000H twin digital tuner card in my > mythbuntu box rather than checking out set top > boxes :) > > I'll let you all know how I go. > > The only thing I'm curious about is these cards > don't have onboard hardware encoders. I've read a > comment that these are not necessary for digital tv > > - anyone know anything about this? > > - anyone used one of these cards before? > > Regards, > > Patrick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
