Digital TV hardware?

[Chris Debenham]

I am currently using a Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual DVB-T card in my Mythtv
box.  I can't remember how much it cost because I got it a while ago but
I think it was around $150 or less.
Standard Gutsy install and it works okay, no special drivers required -
but occasionally I get usb disconnects (the card is a pci card but the
tuners turn up as usb-tuners) which causes mythtv to stop recording.
To get around this I setup 'monit' to monitor the messages log and
restart the dvb card whenever this happens.

Chris

On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 13:01 +1000, Morgan Storey wrote:
> Next question which dual port tv cards are Ubuntu/Linux compatible, or
> someone has had some experience with could maybe comment?
> 
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Owen Townend
> <owen.townend at gmail.com> wrote:
>         
>         
>         On 11/04/2008, daniel.mons at iinet.net.au
>         <daniel.mons at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>                 I'm running a Yuan PG300 PCI DVB-T card (also called a
>                 Stratford PG300).  It cost me $55, and happily decodes
>                 all Australian free-to-air DVB-T channels (including
>                 hi-def channels, although you will need a fairly beefy
>                 PC to view them).
>                 
>                 It works out of the box in Gutsy.  Pre-gutsy you
>                 needed to manually feed a card number while loading
>                 the kernel module, but it still worked fine.
>                 
>                 I'm currently running mine in a Mythbuntu machine
>                 (MythTV / XFCE4 / Xubuntu mish-mash project) as a
>                 homebrew PVR.  MythTV's web interface makes it trivial
>                 to schedule recordings (MythTV can pull TV schedules
>                 from the EIT broadcast over DVB-T).  Recorded shows
>                 can be transcoded (XVid is my codec of choice) and
>                 copied off to other machines in the house with
>                 ease.  Very cool little project.
>                 
>                 I'll be buying another identical card shortly, as the
>                 family are starting to see how easy the MythTV box is
>                 to use, and the inevitable is occurring: people want
>                 to record multiple channels at once, which means
>                 needing another card. :)
>                 
>                 -Dan
>         
>         Hey,
>          Dual tuner cards are now only ~$100[1], I think if I were to
>         buy 
>         another it'd be just as easy to get one of these.
>          Interesting note:
>         A mate who has one noted that his PCI card is 
>         actually detected as a USB hub with the two tuner modules
>         hanging off it.
>         
>         cheers,
>         Owen.
>         
>         [1] At least at places like msy/itestate/fluidtek
>         
>         
>                   On Fri Apr 11  9:48 , Paul Gear  sent:
>                 
>                 
>                 >Anyone know any good digital tuner hardware (PCI,
>                 USB, or otherwise)
>                 >
>                 >that works with Ubuntu?  I don't want to spend money
>                 on a new TV.  :-)
>                 >
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