[Lancaster] My experience with MythTV

[Ken Hough]

Martyn,

I've received my Hauppauge_WinTV_Nova-TD_500 diital TV card. It's a model 289 
which is claimed to be OK for use under Linux.

Haven't yet had time to try it out. Been doing boring things like 
backups.   :-(

Will report back ASAP


Ken Hough


On Wednesday 11 February 2009 17:58:23 Martyn Welch wrote:
> Ken Hough wrote:
> > On Tuesday 10 February 2009 09:00:00 Martyn Welch wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> >> 1) TV Card - I have a Hauppauge Nova-TD-500 (The "new" TD version not
> >> the "old").
> >
> > How can one know which version is being offered?
>
> Info here:
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_WinTV_Nova-T_500_PCI
>
> Note the "UPDATE 10-27-2008". TBH, if you buy a new one, it should be OK.
>
> >> I wouldn't necessarily pick this card again if I was to
> >> start fresh, Linux support for the "TD" still seems a little ropey. The
> >> advantage is that it has 2 tuners on one card, so I can record two
> >> things at once with one card. Note that this card encodes the TV
> >> broadcast to an MPEG stream. This is important as it saves a *lot* of
> >> work for the CPU.
> >
> > That sounds good!
> >
> > Do you (or anyone else) have any suggestions for alternative cards with
> > similar specs?
>
> I'm afraid I don't.
>
> Martyn