TV Tuner

[Mark T. Valites]

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Joshua Ronne Altemoos wrote:

> I am looking for a tv tuner card that works with Linux. Anyone know of 
> any and where to get them from?
>
> I was looking at 
> http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=674000&CatId=1427

The mythtv documentation

(http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.1)

lists the following link:

http://pvrhw.goldfish.org/

for a hardware compabiliity database. You should definetley look through 
there before making any decision.

As another poster responded, I too would highly recommend a hardware mpeg 
encoder card, especially if you have a slower CPU (the Hauppauge PVR-250 
is extremely popular). But if you'd just like to get your hands a little 
dirty with video4linux, I have a Aver Media TV Studio card with remote 
that does software encoding and works in Linux. Contact me off-list with a 
resonable offer if you're interested in it.