Linux TV

[Charles Philip Chan]

Russell Reiter <rreiter91-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> writes:

> I saw this one on Frontier Direct
> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1250 Hybrid Video Recorder

I wouldn't get this card because the analog side is not supported
yet (support is forth coming).

However, I recently purchases a WinTV-HVR-2250 to replace my ageing
HVR-250. It is a duel tuner card that supports OTA ATSC (over the air
digital), NTSC (analog through composite or SVideo input), Clear QAM
(unencrypted cable) and a radio tuner. Capture is through hardware based
MPEG2 encoders. Everything works out of the box in Linux providing you
have kernel > 2.6.32 (haven't tried the radio yet). To capture, I simply
dump the stream with mplayer, or I can use MythTV. However, it is a bit
more expensive than your budget at $139.99 at Canada Computers.

Whatever you buy, you should check http://linuxtv.org and
http://www.mythtv.org/ to see if the card is supported.

Charles

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