[mythtv-users] new digital over the air compatible TV Card

Daniel Neher daniel.neher at gmail.com
Sun Oct 5 16:50:36 UTC 2014


Yup that's my problem. The Hauppauge I bought was a xxx0 on the box and
xxx5 inside. It went right back to Bestbuy!
On Oct 5, 2014 10:47 AM, "Gary Buhrmaster" <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Rodney D. Myers <rod_myers at fastmail.fm>
> wrote:
> > On Sun, 05 Oct 2014 10:45:46 -0500
> > Ben Kamen <bkamen at benjammin.net> wrote:
> >
> >> On 2014-10-05 10:40 AM, Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> >> >
> >> > I've cut the cord, so I am looking for a TV card that can handle the
> >> > over the air antenna. I've looked at the FAQ, but unless I missed
> >> > it, I never saw a list of compatible cards.
> >> >
> >>
> >> What country are you in?
> >>
> >>   -Ben
> >
> > I knew I'd forget something
> >
> > United States
>
> MythTV uses the LinuxTV DVB/V4L apis.  Rather than MythTV
> trying to duplicate the information (which would always be out of
> date), one should go look at the LinuxTV pages for what cards work.
>
>    http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hardware_Device_Information
>
> Be aware the Hauppauge has recently changed some of
> the internal chips in their cards, usually changing the model
> number from xxx0 to xxx5, and those revised cards are not
> supported in Linux (and, unfortunately, Hauppauge ships
> the newer cards in the older boxes since their Windows
> drivers support both card types).  More than one person has
> had to return their new card/dongle to (try to) get "old stock".
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