[mythtv-users] mythtv backend on a laptop?

[Joseph A. Caputo]

almyth at sbcglobal.net wrote:
>  
> Hi,
>  
>         I checked the maillists and could not find anything on running 
> mythtv backend on a laptop, though people have reported running frontend 
> successfully on laptops.   Is it possible to run mythtv backend on a 
> laptop?  It would be cool to do so.   Are there nice capture cards for 
> laptops supported by MythTV/linux?  In the MythTV document, it's clearly 
> stated that WinTV-PVR USB2 is not supported, which makes me wonder does 
> Mythtv support  any usb captures cards at all?    
>        
>      Also, any suggestions on buying what kind of laptops to make MythTV 
> installation possible and easy?
>  
>  
> Your comments are very much appreciated!

MythTV will support any card or device supported by the V4L kernel 
subsystem, as well as the ivtv driver.  I believe there are some USB 
webcams that are supported by V4L, but I don't know if there are any 
supported USB tuners.  One problem is that USB 1.1 doesn't really have 
the bandwidth for full uncompressed NTSC video.

-JAC