[mythtv-users] PCI-E Analog Card

[Brent Norris]

All,
	First, thanks for the conversation.

We have extra servers sitting around, if we decide to go the pci route 
we have no shortage of chassis and motherboards to plug cards in.

Mediacom is horrible in our area.  Sitting down with one of their execs 
is probably impossible and even if we did he probably wouldn't know QAM 
from SPAM (either the meat or the mail).  We will be testing for digital 
content probably on Monday, though even then I imagine because mediacom 
is so customer unfriendly most of it will be encrypted.

If digital is available and carries what we need, then we will be using 
HDHomeruns most likely.  SiliconDust's product is top notch and I love 
to give them money for it if I need it.

We will be using some OTA stuff as in Kentucky (where my schools are) 
they have Kentucky Education Television (KET) which is used in schools a 
lot (carrying PBS content as well as other).  We have USB tuners for 
that from before the HDHR existed.

We have analog cable into all our buildings, and my main question is 
what card should I buy to record it if I am looking at doing so in a 
board with PCI-e slots.  I would like as few cards as possible that are 
best supported in Linux and MythTV.  We don't need to talk about PCI, 
because if that is where I go I will get the PVR500s using the servers I 
have.

As far as clients we have around 150 classrooms that could be watching 
content from the server and potentially around 700 if every computer in 
the district was some how engaged in watching.  That is beyond the scale 
of this conversation though.

What I really need right now is what type of card should I be looking at 
for best support in this PCI-e system that I will be working with at the 
start.

Again, thanks for all the conversation.

Brent