TV Tuner cards

John Conover conover at rahul.net
Wed Aug 10 18:25:08 UTC 2005


Steve writes:
> Hi,
> 
> I've got a question about TV Tuner cards, TVTime application and
> Ubuntu 5.04. Can someone tell which inexpensive TV Tuner cards (PCI)
> work "out of the box" in TVTime in Ubuntu without any kernel hacking,
> etc?
> 
> Right now I have an MSI TV at nywhere Master (cx88) and get no sound in
> TVTime (I found out that is a common issue). I would like to buy a
> different tuner card as long as I am sure it will work for me.
>

The Hauppauge WinTV, (sometimes called WinTV-GO,) tuner card works
with both tvtime and xawtv.

There are a lot of WinTV refurbished boards on the market for under
$20 US.

      John

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