[mythtv-users] Low profile TV tuner card?

[Bborie Park]

also check out Yuan MPG600, its got svid in, comes with a lowprofile 
bracket and works great with the ivtv drivers when compiled with the 
avermedia patch.  you can buy it from newegg.com

Gary Marsh wrote:

> I've got the current system currently running as a web/mail/file/music
> box, and I originally intended to build a MAME cabinet with it:
> 
> - Antec Minuet MATX case
> - Chaintech 7NIF2 motherboard, nforce2 w/onboard TV out
> - Athlon XP 2000+
> - 512 megs PC2700.
> - 160 gig HD
> - 16x DVD-ROM
> 
> Then someone pointed out freevo/mythtv to me, so I figured 'why not? I'll
> grab a TV tuner and wire up some xbox controllers or something'... which
> yields an uber web/mail/file/tivo/music/mame/mess system. Well, that's my
> dream.
> 
> Now, the Minuet requires low profile PCI cards, which means getting a TV
> tuner has turned out to be a pain in the ass.
> 
> So far, the only low profile card I've found *which I can buy* is a KWorld
> CX23883 based card, which doesn't appear to be supported. I've realized
> KWorld also makes a low profile BT878 based card, but after an hour on
> Google I still can't find any north american vendor on Google which sells
> it..
> 
> So the next option is to find a physically small TV tuner card and modify
> its PCI bracket. But the only card I've found that appears to be slim
> enough is an Asus TV-FM card (the cheap one on Newegg) and further
> investigation shows that it uses the SAA7133 chipset (is that close enough
> to a 7134?)
> 
> I could get a different case, but I really don't want to - the Minuet
> looks darn good next to everything else in the AV rack ;)
> 
> any ideas?
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