[mythtv-users] Which HD Capture card should I get?

[Joe Votour]

--- Byron Poland <wpoland at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6/10/06, Joe Votour <joevph at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > --- Moasat <mythtv at moasat.dyndns.org> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm finally looking to get an OTA HD capture
> card.
> > > Which have the best
> > > Linux support and/or are the easiest to get
> working?
> > >
> > > I've heard of pcHDTV3000 and Air2PC.  Any others
> I
> > > should look at?
> > >
> > > Thanks for any input.
> > > >
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> > The DViCO cards (FusionHDTV5 Gold and Lite, as
> well as
> > the FusionHDTV5 USB Gold) all work very well in
> Linux.
> >  The PCI cards don't require any firmware to be
> > loaded, the USB one does.
> >
> > The only downside to the FusionHDTV5 Lite card (I
> > don't know if this affects the Gold or not) is
> that
> > the signal level always shows as 100%, and the SNR
> > always shows up as 4.9, or something like that. 
> This
> > is because the kernel module for the QAM/ATSC
> portion
> > of the card hardcodes those values (this is true
> in
> > the kernel/module set I'm running on Fedora Core
> 5).
> >
> > It doesn't affect receiving the signal at all, it
> just
> > makes it difficult to determine the best way to
> orient
> > the antenna for optimal signal.
> >
> > -- Joe
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> 
>  Anyone have any pointers for setting up the 
> FusionHDTV5 USB Gold?  I
> bought one a while ago and it is at home (i'm on the
> road for work) I
> was home for a day about 3 weeks ago and tried it
> with my laptop
> (running Ubuntu Dapper) and It wasn't even
> recognized.  I've since
> learned that Dapper doesn't use hotplug anymore, but
> uses udev..
> Anyway I will be working on this when I finally get
> home for a while
> Next weekend, but if anyone has any pointers to send
> along I'd
> apprecieate it.
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I'm afraid that I don't know about Ubuntu, since I use
Fedora Core 5, which still uses hotplug.

That said, you need the "Bluebird" firmware, which can
be found in a few places, but there is a script in the
Linux kernel source called "get_dvb_firmware".  It's
actually in the "Documentation" directory, so it may
already be installed elsewhere in Ubuntu.