[mythtv-gta]: A MythTV building workshop?

[Colin McGregor]

On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Kevin Cozens <kevin-4dS5u2o1hCn3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Colin McGregor wrote:
>>
>> Oh, that is dated. When I wrote about MythTV in the fall of 2005
>> (http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8658) the PVR-150 was out and the
>> recommended video card was the GeForce 5200...
>
> If you want old, I used to use an ATI All-In-Wonder PRO with the GATOS
> program to view TV (all of which predates MythTV). I currently have a
> PVR-150 in my desktop with MythTV under Ubuntu. There are times I would like
> to have a PVR-350 dual tuner card but I've heard that there are different
> chipsets used on the boards and only some of them are compatible with Linux.
> Its hard to know what chipset you might get when getting one of the boards.

A small correction, the PVR-500 was the only member of the PVR series
to have dual tuners.

All versions of all the Hauppauge PVR series TV tuners were/are well
supported under MythTV, but...

The PVR-350 has a video out connector and could be used as both a TV
tuner and as a video graphics card. The latest versions of MythTV have
dropped support for the video graphics card section of the PVR-350,
but the PVR-350 still does work well as a TV tuner under MythTV.

There have been multiple versions of the PVR-500, some of the tuners
that came with some versions of the PVR-500 have a reputation for not
being very sensitive...

Colin.

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