[mythtv-users] Name that tuner!

Tom Lichti tom at redpepperracing.com
Thu Jan 12 19:42:57 UTC 2006


Steve Daniels wrote:
> Ok, I've aquired a tuner and haven't a clue what kind it is, all I have is 
> the board.
>
> It's in a machine at the moment so can't see it to tell you any codes 
> written on it but it's got the following I/O from top to bottom.
> It's a Hauppauge Analogue Card, and probably at least 1 year old.
>
> FM, TV, Line Out, Vid, Line in, IR
>
> Now name that tuner!
>
> If you want me to run any commands to help find out what tuner it is, or 
> need to me find any numbers written on the board feel free to ask and I'll 
> get back to you. I'm wondering whether to leave this card in or swap it out 
> for another Nova-T i've got. I wanted to leave it in so I could convert any 
> VHS tapes over to myth as and when requested by the family.. Or it might 
> just be better to stick it into my desktop machine and create the divx's 
> manually.. hmmm
>
>   
Running lspci -v should give you something like the following:

0000:00:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc 
iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR 250
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
        Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

Tom


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