[mythtv-users] pcHDTV card

Brandon Beattie bbeattie-maillist at linkexplorer.com
Thu Oct 2 16:39:15 EDT 2003


Make sure to visit antennaweb.org and see what antenna you will need..

--Brandon

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 01:35:13PM -0700, Jarod C. Wilson wrote:
> For those that have asked me about my pcHDTV card... It arrived 
> yesterday afternoon, but as I suspected, my reception is so bad that I 
> can only get a few very fuzzy analog signals and not a whiff of HD. I'm 
> off to see about a roof-mount antenna right now... I'm looking at 
> probably a mid-range Terk or Channel Master and a pre-amp...
> 
> First impressions though: the installation is pretty easy, the included 
> audio jumper is very nice (all internal, goes from the card to an aux 
> CD-ROM-like input on my sound card; note that I believe this is only 
> for analog signals, as HDTV signals should have the audio muxed into 
> the transport stream). Directions are included for setting up under Red 
> Hat 7.2 - 9 and Debian. I was unable to compile the driver against the 
> latest ATrpms kernel source (this is due to recent changes in the v4l2 
> api, I believe), but had no problems compiling against stock Red Hat 
> 2.4.20-20.9 source.
> 
> --Jarod
> 
> -- 
> Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
> 
> Got a question? Read this first...
>      http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
> MythTV, Red Hat Linux 9 & ATrpms documentation:
>      http://pvrhw.goldfish.org/tiki-page.php?pageName=rh9pvr250
> MythTV Searchable Mailing List Archive
>      http://www.gossamer-threads.com/archive/MythTV_C2/
> 

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