[TriLUG] tv tuner cards

[Tanner Lovelace]

On 9/8/05, Ken Mink <ken.mink at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you're thinking about MythTV, go with a Hauppauge PVR150, 250, 350 or 500
> card. They are not the cheapest, but they are well supported. I've got a
> PVR500 and a PVR250 in the same Linux/MythTV box and both work fine. All the
> cards offer onboard analog tuners with hardware mpeg2 encoding. The PVR350
> also has hardware decoding for display. This is nice, but can be problematic
> to get working.

The PVR150 can be had for fairly cheaply and work very well as long
as you have a fairly up to date kernel.

Cheers,
Tanner
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