[Lancaster] Hauppauge WINTV-NOVA-TD-500 igital TV card

[Ken Hough]

I've just now got the 'low noise amplifier' enabled on this TV card and now 
have a list of 38 TV channels and 26 Radio channels. All with good signal 
strengths.

Many thanks for your help Martyn. This is a nice TV card.

Ken hough


On Monday 16 February 2009 08:44:32 Ken Hough wrote:
> I've managed to get this TV card sort of working under 64 bit SUSE Linux
> 11.1
>
> I first tried it under Windows XP (spit !!!), just to make sure all was
> well. Results very good --- for the card that is.  :-)
>
> I then fired up under SUSE. It was clear that the relevant modules for this
> card had been loaded, but things didn't work. I then discovered that a bit
> of hackery is needed. See:
> <http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_WinTV_Nova-T_500_PCI#Linux_Support>
> This info relates to Ubuntu, but there are a lot of generally applicable
> clues including the need to download/install a firmware file and to enable
> the on board 'low noise amplifier'.
>
> I used Kaffeine to tune into channels sucessfully. Well, sort of
> sucessfully in that only the strongest signals had been detected/tuned.
> Despite having a 'line of sight' view to the Winter Hill transmitter from
> my location just south of Kendal, I still need a good external antenna and
> a couple of booster amplifiers. Given these, I get good signal strength
> into my normal television set.
>
> According to the link given above, it's necessary to manually enable the
> 'low noise amplifier' on the TV card. I though that I had done this, but
> obviously not sucessfully. All was OK under WinXP.
>
> Then I got an error message which told me that codecs hadn't been
> installed. Eventually this was sorted out with the help of the Pacman
> repository. The stations that were detected could then be viewed, but some
> showed the broken banding typical of when signal strength is poor.
>
> I just need to sort out the 'low noise amplifier' bit. Otherwise it's
> looking good.
>
> Oh, and I need to set up the IR controller.
>
> Regards
>
> Ken hough
>
> On Sunday 15 February 2009 18:13:55 Ken Hough wrote:
> > 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
> >
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