[Gllug] TV tuner cards

[amd_uk]

Nebula Electronics recently went bust but it's been taken over by Nebula 
Media Solutions.
http://www.nebula-electronics.com/news/changes.asp

The Nebula hardware and windows software are very nice but in an 
environment where you can pick up USB tuners and PCI cards for £20, 
charging £90+ means that you have to make the case for the extra cost to 
the general public and they never really have.

I have a Hauppauge HVR-1300 sitting in a MythTV machine and it's working 
fine at the moment (touch wood).
I tried a couple of installs with Mythbuntu and I had problems but going 
with a plain Ubuntu install and then setting up MythTV from there went 
through pretty easily.
It's running 24/7 until I try to find out the best way to turn the aged 
PIII off in-between recordings but this does allow the family to connect 
to it and schedule recordings through a web browser.


Pete Stean wrote:
> The Nebula Electronics PCI card (which uses the DVB_bt8xx module,
> included in recent kernels from Edgy onwards) works fine. I simply had
> to 'sudo modprobe dvb_bt8xx', install and run kaffeine, tell it which
> TV transmitter I was pointing at and bob's your uncle, more TV and
> radio channels than you can shake a stick at...  I would imagine that
> any card with a bt8xx chipset will work in the same way.
>
> I couldn't tell you how to set this card up with MythTV however
> (getting a Myth setup to work is still a complete mystery to me....)
> but for simple click and view or record, Kaffeine does the business
>
> Pete
>
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