[mythtv-users] TV Sound

[Drew Lenze]

Choosing the "right" tuner card certainly must be an important issue. 
Even for simpler "garden variety" (office type, general purpose) 
computers strange problems can develop with hardware mixing and 
matching.  But, for me, what I did was refer to the 
http://www.goldfish.org/~mcooper/pvrhw/stats.html site.  Listed at the 
top is the TV Wonder.  Hauppage doesn't even show up in the top 5.  So I 
avoided the Hauppage entirely.

As a newbie I'm clueless about alot of these techonolgies - high 
performance graphics, cpu's, tuners, ir devices... So much has changed 
over the years (from the old z80 days).  It's still difficult to read 
through even this group and sort the chaff from the jewels.  I've 
finally settled on a Leadtech TV2000.  Why?  because someone else said 
it worked for them.  Mine isn't here yet.  I'm keeping my fingers 
crossed.  I have *no clue* if it's going to work at all.

What I'm going to try to do, in my 
http://www.lorimarksolutions.com/MythTv/Marks_LinTV_Project.html 
project, is try to make some logical sense of all the components 
(software and hardware) block them out, explain them if I can, and, 
hopefully have some steering for those looking to get started on their own.

I had never considered heat issues as it pertains to cpu's and 
performance and dropping frames.  I never heard of anything that shuts 
components of the cpu down if it detects that it's overheating.  I think 
that's pretty neat and I'm going to try to learn more about that as 
well, because I notice that when I get into the bios on my via epia-m 
board, it has a screen where it will indicate the fan rpm, and cpu 
temperatures.  That's cool.  Does anyone happen to know how to get at 
those kinds of values from Linux?

But, things like that, cpu temp, are the kinds of things I'm going to 
try to cover in that page I'm working on.

Thanks for listening. Thanks for the great project.



Micah Morton wrote:
> Before reading this, note: I have never gotten mythtv working and have
> only once tried to with my Pinnacle BTTV card... So, here's what I've been
> gathering over the last couple months of viewing this list.
> 
> I see TONS of people complain about their ATI All-In-Wonder cards....
>    1) They can't record and playback at the same time...
>    2) there are tons of auto-detection problems
>    3) the VE model seems to be more problematic than others.
> 
> I don't see any problems with Hauppauge cards... everybody seems to have
> really good luck with those.  I'm wondering what peoples opinions are with
> these cards - what problems do they have, if any?
> 
> As for TV-Out, my GeForce2 MX400 has excellent TV-Out and was super-easy
> to set up...  Why do people fuss with matrox g200/400/450 cards when there
> is such a cheap alternative? is it because the g200 has a tv-tuner?  Can
> it record and playback at the same time?
>