[mythtv-users] usb capture on laptop backend..
Yann Lehmann
aristide at vtxmail.ch
Wed Oct 22 09:09:17 UTC 2008
Michael Kim wrote:
> I'm thinking about using my Thinkpad T61 as a backend w/ a USB capture
> device and a 750GB external drive. Is anyone using a laptop as a
> backend? Should I just buy a new box?
>
> Any recommendations for USB capture...? I'll be living in Argentina so
> I need PAL, but I'd like to buy it while I'm in the US. Can someone
> lead me to a site in the US that has PAL hardware.
>
You didn't mention analog or digital, nor sd or hd.
For sd analog tv, you can use a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2. It works well
under Linux and MythTV (there is a dedicated page on the wiki).
The US webpage from Hauppauge mentions it has been replaced by the HVR-1950,
which can do more, but apparently no PAL. I think it is still available in
Europe.
Yann
More information about the mythtv-users
mailing list