[mythtv-users] ATSC tuner recommendation?

[Timothy E. Krantz]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Harry Orenstein
> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 8:10 PM
> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] ATSC tuner recommendation?
> 
> On Tuesday 31 March 2009 03:32:33 pm Steve Peters - Priority 
> Electronics
> wrote:
> > >> 04:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc 
> > >> iTVC16
> > >> (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
> > >
> > >Hmmm, that's precisely what I get for my PVR-150s, and they are 
> > >definitely not HD-capable.
> > >
> > >I wouldn't expect a digital capture device to have an encoder 
> > >on-board, does it also have an analog section?
> > >
> > >--
> > >beww
> > >beww at beww.org
> >
> > Yes, it does have an analog section, perhaps that's that. The lspci 
> > doesn't say what the ati hdtv is, but I suspect it's that.
> >
> > -Steve
> >
> >
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> Probably because that's not the correct device.  This is the 
> lspci from my ATI HDTV Wonder:
> 
> 00:0d.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. 
> CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder (rev 05)
> 00:0d.1 Multimedia controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. 
> CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder [Audio Port] (rev 05)
> 00:0d.2 Multimedia controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. 
> CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder [MPEG Port] (rev 05)
> 
> The easy way to tell is to do an lspci -v.  This shows:
> 
> 00:0d.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. 
> CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder (rev 05)
> 	Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc HDTV Wonder
> 	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16
> 	Memory at dd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
> 	Capabilities: <access denied>
> 	Kernel driver in use: cx8800
> 	Kernel modules: cx8800
> 
> 00:0d.1 Multimedia controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. 
> CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder [Audio Port] (rev 05)
> 	Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Device a101
> 	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16
> 	Memory at dc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
> 	Capabilities: <access denied>
> 	Kernel driver in use: cx88_audio
> 	Kernel modules: cx88-alsa
> 
> 00:0d.2 Multimedia controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. 
> CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder [MPEG Port] (rev 05)
> 	Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Device a101
> 	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16
> 	Memory at db000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
> 	Capabilities: <access denied>
> 	Kernel driver in use: cx88-mpeg driver manager
> 	Kernel modules: cx8802
> 
> 
> On eBay the compatible ones are listed for $14 (plus 
> shipping) as "R-10827".  
> The one I got was new and had a seller warranty.
> 

Just FYI, if you look at the pictures on the ebay ones and read the
watermark you can get back to a website of the seller where they are sold
for $12 plus shipping and has a seller warranty.  I ordered one just to
compare it to my pinnacle 800i't that I have been  using.

Tim