[Lancaster] My experience with MythTV

[Martyn Welch]

Ken Hough wrote:
> Martyn,
> 
> Did you have much to do to get your TV card working under Linux?
> If so what did you do?
> 

Some support for my card is included in modern Linux kernels, all I had 
to do was use an Ubuntu 8.10 derivative.

> I have a KWorld DVB-T 210 card which came already fitted to my PC. According 
> to info on the Internet, it is possible to get this to work under Linux,but 
> I've not yet been able to do this.
> 

I guess support hasn't been rolled back into the kernel...

> I'm wondering if it would be sensible to go for a more 'standard' Hauppuage 
> card. I have an ancient Hauppuage analogue TV/Radio card that used to work 
> just fine.
> 

I'd say so. I'd also suggest making sure it's a card that does the MPEG 
encoding on-board. I guess that the freeview ones will. The old analogue 
cards used to basically provide an interface that provided static images 
that needed to be stitched together as a video (and combined with the 
sound) - quite CPU intensive...

Martyn