Getting TV onto a Linux box

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 11:46:20AM -0500, Tim Writer wrote:
> AFAIK, you can't replace your satellite receiver or digital cable box in
> North America yet.  However, you can work with it.  You can use a WinTV card
> to bring the TV signal into your Linux box from the receiver and use an IR
> blaster to control the receiver (i.e. to change channels) from within Linux.
> This is supported by MythTV (http://www.mythtv.org).
> 
> One thing about the WinTV GO card, it's a plain old TV tuner, fine for
> watching live TV but not great for recording or streaming across a network.
> If you want to build a full Linux PVR, I'd recommend the Hauppauge WinTV PVR
> 250 or 350 because they have hardware MPEG-2 encoding.  With these cards, you
> can encode live TV to MPEG-2 in real time with no load on your CPU.  The 350
> has an FM Tuner as well as TV out.  For a while, the 250 was on sale at
> Future Shop and Best Buy for around $150.

The 350 has hardware mpeg2 encoding and decoding.  The 250 has hardware
mpeg2 decoding only.

Lennart Sorensen
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