[mythtv-users] Recommendations Please, TV Card

[Ross Campbell]

On 7/5/06, HILLSGROVE,MICHAEL <mikeah at cablespeed.com> wrote:
> What is the easiest to get working and most compatible TV
> card for a Linux machine?  I live in the United States. I
> don't need to fight it, something that works is fine. It
> doesn't have to be HD, but I do want to use the PVR
> function.

Probably a PVR-250, since they're well supported for a very long time,
but a PVR-150 or 500 works as well.

Look here: http://www.ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Supported_hardware

> My machine is a homebuilt AMD64x2, 2 gig RAM, unlimited
> storage (I have an NAS device), ASUS mainboard, and a
> NVIDIA 6600 PCI-E card with 256 RAM.  I would prefer to
> put it on Linspire, but I do have UBUNTU, XANDROS hard
> drives available.  If need be, I'll add another distro
> HDD.  (All HDD's are in a rack, I swap them out as
> required).

If you want to take the easy road to getting mythtv working, I would
recommend you focus more on which Linux distribution you use than your
video capture card.   Google for "$DISTRO mythtv" for your choices
before you start out.

The road more often traveled is likely to be the easiest.


- Ross