What brand of TV tuner card is good for the Gentoo build

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genblood · Post by **genblood** » Sat Dec 13, 2003 5:29 pm

HI ALL,

I'm thinking about adding a TV tuner card to my Gentoo system. I'm not sure
what type or brand to get for a linux system. Any Ideas

Also I plan to watch
TV and maybe even record some shows too, like a Tivo... Any info on the subject
would be helpful. LATER ....

petu · Post by **petu** » Sat Dec 13, 2003 6:35 pm

I have hauppauge's wintv pci card and it works pretty well. Allthough I don't use it much anymore because the quality of sound & video is poor in analog tv broadcast. So I would recommend you would think about buying a dvb card. See http://www.linuxtv.org

Abandon · Post by **Abandon** » Sun Dec 14, 2003 2:37 am

I've used a Hauppauge PVR 250 with great success for the last 6 months. I was so pleased I bought one for my father and we now both use them with MythTV 0.12 for TV watching and recording. I will say though that due to the active state of development on the PVR driver you do have to be comfortable compiling from source. I have to help my father out from time to time keeping his system working well.

You might want to start by picking a PVR application and then check the mailing list for that application about which cards it works with best. I settled on the PVR250 because it can record shows while I'm working and I barely notice it.

mushroom blue · Post by **mushroom blue** » Sun Dec 14, 2003 10:48 pm

if you're not using digital cable or satellite, I'd say go with the Hauppage WinTV, or ATI TV Wonder. they're both bttv drivers, and fully-supported.

if you're looking for digital-quality, get a Hauppage PVR 250. they're about the best.

MasterX · Post by **MasterX** » Mon Dec 15, 2003 12:02 am

I have Ati TV Wonder VE (the VE is important

) is need bttv module to work.
For watching tv I am using Tvtime and for recording MythTv

Sequentious · Post by **Sequentious** » Mon Dec 15, 2003 12:57 am

If one was to attempt to broadcast tv over a network (mythtv should do this i think, im not sure what else) how much bandwidth do you think one would need?