[mythtv-users] Which tuner card? Can you make a recommendation?

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Sun Apr 2 00:49:41 UTC 2006



On Apr 1, 2006, at 5:04 PM, Douglas R. Spindler (DNAI) wrote:

> I'm new to MythTV and Linux and would like a recommendation for a  
> tuner
> card.  I've been using ReplayTV with the auto commercial advance,  
> and just
> saw a demo of MythTV.  Looks great!  Here's my question...  Which  
> tuner card
> should I use?  I've looked at the list, and seem Hauppauge is the  
> way to go.
> Only problem I can't easily tell what the difference is between the  
> models.
> Can you offer some assistance?
>
> I was thing of the PVR-550, but it doesn't come with a remote?   
> Don't you
> want a remote?  Looks like the PVR-350 has some audio issues and is  
> the only
> difference between the 150 and 250 an FM radio?
>
> Can you offer a suggestion?  (Not looking of HD.)  I think an onboard
> encoder makes more sense on the tuner card makes sense, right?  Or  
> am I
> missing something?
>
> The box I want to use is a Dell OptiPlex GX110 P-3, 1.0gig with .5  
> gig of
> RAM and an integrated video card.  From what I have read, that  
> should work,
> right?
>
> I plan on using the easy build version of Myth.  From what I've  
> been told,
> it should build a system in about 30 minutes.  Sound about right?
>
> Would appreciate it If you could get me going,
> Thanks


Have a look at the relevant entries here:

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Hardware

I tend to agree that the Hauppauge cards are a very good solution for  
SD.

I think you mean 500 and not 550. I doubt that you could find a 250  
these days, it was replaced by the 150, some of which have radios and  
some do not.

The 350 has a built-in mpeg decoder, the audio "issues" are trivial.

You can use a remote that is not associated with a tuner card, serial  
and USB IR receivers are available.

The machine you describe would probably work, if not pushed too hard  
(ie: don't try four recordings and 2 transcodes at once). The  
integrated video will probably obviate XvMC, as it's not Unichrome.

Look through the WiKi and the archives of this list and you will find  
a lot of of info.


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