[mythtv-users] Low profile TV tuner card?

Kendrick Vargas ken at hudat.com
Tue Jan 6 12:38:45 EST 2004


You know, I'm looking for these, does anyone else carry them?
			-peace

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Bborie Park wrote:

> also check out Yuan MPG600, its got svid in, comes with a lowprofile 
> bracket and works great with the ivtv drivers when compiled with the 
> avermedia patch.  you can buy it from newegg.com
> 
> Gary Marsh wrote:
> 
> > I've got the current system currently running as a web/mail/file/music
> > box, and I originally intended to build a MAME cabinet with it:
> > 
> > - Antec Minuet MATX case
> > - Chaintech 7NIF2 motherboard, nforce2 w/onboard TV out
> > - Athlon XP 2000+
> > - 512 megs PC2700.
> > - 160 gig HD
> > - 16x DVD-ROM
> > 
> > Then someone pointed out freevo/mythtv to me, so I figured 'why not? I'll
> > grab a TV tuner and wire up some xbox controllers or something'... which
> > yields an uber web/mail/file/tivo/music/mame/mess system. Well, that's my
> > dream.
> > 
> > Now, the Minuet requires low profile PCI cards, which means getting a TV
> > tuner has turned out to be a pain in the ass.
> > 
> > So far, the only low profile card I've found *which I can buy* is a KWorld
> > CX23883 based card, which doesn't appear to be supported. I've realized
> > KWorld also makes a low profile BT878 based card, but after an hour on
> > Google I still can't find any north american vendor on Google which sells
> > it..
> > 
> > So the next option is to find a physically small TV tuner card and modify
> > its PCI bracket. But the only card I've found that appears to be slim
> > enough is an Asus TV-FM card (the cheap one on Newegg) and further
> > investigation shows that it uses the SAA7133 chipset (is that close enough
> > to a 7134?)
> > 
> > I could get a different case, but I really don't want to - the Minuet
> > looks darn good next to everything else in the AV rack ;)
> > 
> > any ideas?
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> 

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