TV Card Recommendation

[dan]

Just to say I bought a WinTV card off of ebay for £10 and it worked
straight away - pictures & sound in both xawtv and zapping.  Its a
PAL-I 61295 Rev D111. It has a small resolution and the video is a bit
scratchy (might be the aerial).

Oh and I sold my Leadtek Winfast DV2000 (no sound in ubuntu) for £35 :-)

Dan

On 4/24/05, Charlie Lewis <clewis4 at hot.rr.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 24 April 2005 04:12 pm, Simon Santoro wrote:
> > Simon Taplin wrote:
> > > Can anybody recommend a good TV card that works with Hoary.
> > >
> > > Simon
> >
> > Have a look at this
> > http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2005-April/031160.html
> > thread
> 
> Tack in here and add my two cents to what Simon said to Simon since I seem to
> have lost Simon's original post to reference what Simon Said. ;-)
> 
> Anyway, I'll echo most every thing on the thread that Simon said to read after
> having read it. I think I said that right.
> 
> Simon, not particularly plugging Hauppage, but most of my experience has been
> with Hauppage since in my part of the world they seem to be the most readily
> available, so with that said, I've got one of the Hauppage WinTV-Go-Fm cards
> which I've had since sometime back around 1997 or so. I recall the first
> Linux distro I used it on was Caldera OpenLinux 1.3, so you might figure by
> that how old it is. The first application I used it with was KwinTV that was
> shipped with that version of Caldera, but it worked well with the version of
> Xawtv that was available then also. I used the ncurses radio app for my FM
> Tuner option until I found Gradio and then later Gnomeradio. It's worked with
> very little configuration and most time none at all with every Linux distro
> I've ever tried and that has been a few. It has the bttv878 chip and the
> Phillips FM1236 tuner. Hauppage recently came out with a later model of the
> WinTV-Go that uses the 881 chip and a friend of mine has had problems getting
> it to work on a couple of Mandrake Release Candidates he is playing with and
> I've piddle with it to no avail except on one occasion I got it to work for
> about two hours until he rebooted, so I don't know for sure on the 881.
> 
> I've got a WinTV-PVR250 which I've got to work on one Debian Sid Release with
> a lot of configuring, compiling and building of the ivtv drivers,
> http://ivtv.sourceforge.net/
> using mplayer for an interface and doing a lot of the exotic which needs to be
> done with MythTV or other exotic interface which integrates Xmltv station
> grabbing and scheduling stuff along with database, and will handle the MPEG
> stuff which Xawtv, and the ordinary frame grabber stuff. It's a lot of work
> for just watching TV for someone who isn't really hip on nor capable of doing
> a lot of computer gymnastics in Linux like extracting and loading firmware
> and what have you. The WinTV-PVR350 is essentially the same card except it
> has hardware MPEG video decoding.
> 
> I have a WinTV-PVR-usb (note not the usb 2) that I got to work once with Linux
> using the
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/pvrusb/
> which hasn't had any work done on it since 2002 and seems development on it
> has stopped. It was raw and attached it's self to /dev/usb/lp0 for some
> reason, but that is the way the fellow who wrote it wrote it, so I don't know
> his reasoning. ;-)
> 
> I've got a really cheap ATI TV Wonder that I use on one Ubuntu box that has my
> VCR and a DVDRom player inlined so that it sets on default channel 3 and
> never needs to be changed once it is tuned and set and works off the VCR
> remote except for shut down of the actual frame grabber interface like Xawtv,
> so I don't get the problem with it I've had with it in other systems of being
> about a channel off on NTSC us-cable, and it will not mute audio (uses a line
> out that connects to line in on soundcard) so I had to write a script that
> unmutes or mutes Alsa turning it on or off. Other than that it works okay
> with Xawtv, TvTime, Zapping etc.
> 
> I've been thinking about recompiling the ivtv and doing the mythtv stuff on
> the other Ubuntu Hoary box in which the TV Wonder is in to see if I get it go
> on Ubuntu. Just don't ever seem to have all the time I want.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Charlie
> 
> 
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