[mythtv-users] Recommendations Please, TV Card
Ross Campbell
ross.campbell at gmail.com
Wed Jul 5 18:16:11 UTC 2006
On 7/5/06, HILLSGROVE,MICHAEL <mikeah at cablespeed.com> wrote:
> What is the easiest to get working and most compatible TV
> card for a Linux machine? I live in the United States. I
> don't need to fight it, something that works is fine. It
> doesn't have to be HD, but I do want to use the PVR
> function.
Probably a PVR-250, since they're well supported for a very long time,
but a PVR-150 or 500 works as well.
Look here: http://www.ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Supported_hardware
> My machine is a homebuilt AMD64x2, 2 gig RAM, unlimited
> storage (I have an NAS device), ASUS mainboard, and a
> NVIDIA 6600 PCI-E card with 256 RAM. I would prefer to
> put it on Linspire, but I do have UBUNTU, XANDROS hard
> drives available. If need be, I'll add another distro
> HDD. (All HDD's are in a rack, I swap them out as
> required).
If you want to take the easy road to getting mythtv working, I would
recommend you focus more on which Linux distribution you use than your
video capture card. Google for "$DISTRO mythtv" for your choices
before you start out.
The road more often traveled is likely to be the easiest.
- Ross
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