[mythtv-users] Need a Dual turner Capture card for my Cable, WinTV-PVR 500 is discontinued so what do you recommend ?

[RoboJ1M]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Roberto Salvatierra <
robertosalvatierra at hotmail.com> wrote:

> First of all, Hello !
>
> Topic: WinTV-PVR 500 not made anymore, what card with dual recorders do you
> recommend.
>
> now for the last few weeks, I have been doing this and that to get a my PC
> working with MYTHtv, everything is FINE now, I am using a very old,
> avermedia tv98, for my tests ( I do not live in USA ) so I had to make my
> own EPG from various sources of the web, I have a soldered XBOX IR for
> remote control ( my avermedia tv98 did not work ) I have APCI working to
> save electricty, everything connected to my TV, using an old 6200 Nvida
> Card, Everything works AWESOME.
>
> Now, I want to finish it, adding a dual capture card like the Hauppauge
> Personal Video Recorder WinTV-PVR 500, but I came to the web searching for
> it and I found that it is discontinued, It seems I can find others on EBAY,
> but I really really want a new card since this will replace completly the
> VERY expensive PVR I get from my cable company right now.
>
> I was looking at the "WinTV-HVR-2250", it seems very nice specially
> considering it gets ATSC, and ONE channel where I live transmits HD over
> ATSC, so it would be nice to have that, but it seems there is no linux
> support for it, I do have the Single slot PCI Express, (PCIe) X1 port for
> it, so I could use it, if not I really need either a PCI card or a PCIE1/2.
> because those are my options ( well I could use USB also, but I do not know
> of a dual turner that uses USB )
>
> there's also the "WinTV-HVR-1800" that would do the trick, but no linix
> support.
>
> so what would you recommend ?  the feature I NEED is the dual analog cable
> tunner, ( please HARDWARE ENCODE ) and it has to work over regular PCI slot,
> (PCIe) X1, or USB, the ATSC would be awesome ( not required )  but it has to
> be completly supported by Linux.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> RS.
>
> I am using Ubunthu with MythTv 0.21, Biostar MOBO ( it was what is had )
> award bios, with a 2.6 MHZ Celeron processor.
>
>

Hi,

What about the Hauppauge Nova-T 500? That's well supported in Linux.

J1M.
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