OTA HD [ was: [OT] HDTV recommendations? ]

Scott Sullivan scott-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
Mon Jun 13 20:58:12 UTC 2011


On 06/13/2011 12:40 PM, Scott Sullivan wrote:
> On 06/13/2011 11:40 AM, Tyler Aviss wrote:
>> Along this vein,
>>
>>
>> Does anyone know of good Linux+Myth friendly tuner cards that support
>> OTA (over-the-air) digital TV?
>>
>> Extra points to USB-based tuners that do both analog/digital....
>> -- 
>> [...]
> To the point of this topic,
>
> A friend of mine has been using this USB turner with his ubuntu laptop 
> and desktop.
>
> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-950Q TV Tuner Stick
> http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815116034
>
> I can't speak for a quality but it's worked light duty he puts on it. 
> Just trying to get the ball rolling on actual hardware discussion.
> -- 
> Scott Sullivan
> [...]
Tyler,

A check of the wiki shows an incomplete list of Cards here:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Digital_Tuner_Cards

The note at the top points out the MythTV targets the APIs and not the 
cards themselves and directs towards this:

http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hardware_Device_Information

I know it's not a hard opinionated recommendation, but is a place to start.
-- 
Scott Sullivan
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