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

[Byron Poland]

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.