[mythtv-users] ATSC tuner recommendation?

[stuart]

Timothy E. Krantz wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
>> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Harry Orenstein
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 8:10 PM
>> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] ATSC tuner recommendation?
>>
>> On Tuesday 31 March 2009 03:32:33 pm Steve Peters - Priority 
>> Electronics
>> wrote:
>>>>> 04:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc 
>>>>> iTVC16
>>>>> (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
>>>> Hmmm, that's precisely what I get for my PVR-150s, and they are 
>>>> definitely not HD-capable.
>>>>
>>>> I wouldn't expect a digital capture device to have an encoder 
>>>> on-board, does it also have an analog section?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> beww
>>>> beww at beww.org
>>> Yes, it does have an analog section, perhaps that's that. The lspci 
>>> doesn't say what the ati hdtv is, but I suspect it's that.
>>>
>>> -Steve
>>>
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>> Probably because that's not the correct device.  This is the 
>> lspci from my ATI HDTV Wonder:
>>
>> 00:0d.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. 
>> CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder (rev 05)
>> 00:0d.1 Multimedia controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. 
>> CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder [Audio Port] (rev 05)
>> 00:0d.2 Multimedia controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. 
>> CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder [MPEG Port] (rev 05)
>>
>> The easy way to tell is to do an lspci -v.  This shows:
>>
>> 00:0d.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. 
>> CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder (rev 05)
>> 	Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc HDTV Wonder
>> 	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16
>> 	Memory at dd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
>> 	Capabilities: <access denied>
>> 	Kernel driver in use: cx8800
>> 	Kernel modules: cx8800
>>
>> 00:0d.1 Multimedia controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. 
>> CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder [Audio Port] (rev 05)
>> 	Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Device a101
>> 	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16
>> 	Memory at dc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
>> 	Capabilities: <access denied>
>> 	Kernel driver in use: cx88_audio
>> 	Kernel modules: cx88-alsa
>>
>> 00:0d.2 Multimedia controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. 
>> CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder [MPEG Port] (rev 05)
>> 	Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Device a101
>> 	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16
>> 	Memory at db000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
>> 	Capabilities: <access denied>
>> 	Kernel driver in use: cx88-mpeg driver manager
>> 	Kernel modules: cx8802
>>
>>
>> On eBay the compatible ones are listed for $14 (plus 
>> shipping) as "R-10827".  
>> The one I got was new and had a seller warranty.
>>
> 
> Just FYI, if you look at the pictures on the ebay ones and read the
> watermark you can get back to a website of the seller where they are sold
> for $12 plus shipping and has a seller warranty.  I ordered one just to
> compare it to my pinnacle 800i't that I have been  using.
> 
> Tim
...

Thanks Tim for pointing that out.  However, AMD's/ATI's naming 
convention leaves a *lot* to be desired.  In the end everyone appears to 
refer to this set of cards as "ATI Wonder" cards.  Some here (I assume) 
say they work - yet the mythtv.org/wiki says they don't:

> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Video_capture_card#Cards_that_don.27t_work

Or, at the very least, described a complex approach to allowing tuning 
of ATI cards.  Is there some place where the information is more 
specific to the different cards, accurate or up-to-date?

The HDHR might be the mythtv turn key solution for ATSC tuners, but it 
is hard to ignore this price point.

...thanks