[mythtv-users] pcHDTV card

[Jarod C. Wilson]

For those that have asked me about my pcHDTV card... It arrived 
yesterday afternoon, but as I suspected, my reception is so bad that I 
can only get a few very fuzzy analog signals and not a whiff of HD. I'm 
off to see about a roof-mount antenna right now... I'm looking at 
probably a mid-range Terk or Channel Master and a pre-amp...

First impressions though: the installation is pretty easy, the included 
audio jumper is very nice (all internal, goes from the card to an aux 
CD-ROM-like input on my sound card; note that I believe this is only 
for analog signals, as HDTV signals should have the audio muxed into 
the transport stream). Directions are included for setting up under Red 
Hat 7.2 - 9 and Debian. I was unable to compile the driver against the 
latest ATrpms kernel source (this is due to recent changes in the v4l2 
api, I believe), but had no problems compiling against stock Red Hat 
2.4.20-20.9 source.

--Jarod

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Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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