[mythtv-users] AverMedia M179 good/bad?

[Kristo Kriechbaum]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 11:48:56PM -0800, Jarod C. Wilson wrote:
> On Feb 4, 2004, at 18:15, Tim Lewis wrote:
> 
> >Is the AverMedia M179 a good choice for the price?
> 
> Yes. I have two of them.
> 
> >Or is the PVR-250 better?
> 
> Yes, but at a price. The 250 has a IR remote interface (assuming you're 
> talking about the retail 250 and not the OEM version), and you don't 
> have to patch ivtv source to get it working (though you won't for the 
> M179 either, as of the next ivtv release, IIRC).

I just got mine 2 days ago, and so far so good.  If you use the ivtv
rpms built by Axel Thimm (http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/), you
won't have to patch the source either.

Kristo