[mythtv-users] What HDTV capture card has the most support?

Tom Lichti tom at redpepperracing.com
Thu Mar 1 15:40:01 UTC 2007


Chris Cox, N0UK wrote:
> I am using three differnet cards successfully - pcHDTV-3000, 
> Air2PC/Flexcom, and an ATI HDTV Wonder.  They each seem to work as 
> effectively as each other, however, none of them work on a new 64-bit AMD 
> box that I built as a replacement for an old e-machines box.
> 
> Although the three cards are all recognised by the OS' DVB drivers, all of 
> them fail when mythtv-setup initiates a Channel Scan.  Although lock is 
> found on all of the appropriate channels, they log a Timeout - No Tables 
> Found error.
> 
> Don't know if it's specific to my motherboard or what although I believe 
> that I have seen other peoiple report PCI bus voltage problems with some 
> HDTV cards on x86_64 systems.
> 

What version on Myth are you using? If it's greater than SVN 12618, I'd 
back down to 12618 and try the channel scan again. There is some kind of 
bug with DVB in > 12619.

Tom



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