[Cialug] MythTV HD tuner?

[jrnosee at gmail.com]

While the card does work "out of the box" in 8.10 (which I'm not sure how
they call it "out of the box" if you still need the firmware), it may not
work with your other hardware/drivers.  It fights my nVidia card, and I've
yet to find a configuration that works properly with it.

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Nathaniel Petersen <major.stubble at gmail.com
> wrote:

> I'm sure there are others that will correct me on this one, but why
> would you need to encode HD?  The signal is already mpeg2, so you
> should be able to copy it straight to your system, right?  Sure, if
> you want it to encapsulate it into a compressed avi, then you would
> need to encode it, but nothing more than if you were doing the same to
> a ripped DVD.
>
> As an aside, it is worth noting that the MythTV wiki does say this
> about the card:
>
> --Update Nov-2008 - This worked out of the box on Mythbuntu 8.10 which
> comes with 2.6.27 kernel. The firmware was needed on this application
> as well. There is a "raspy" electronic sound that I have yet to fix.
>
> You should also take note of the firmware section, as I know from
> experience in the past with other Pinnacle TV cards that they love to
> release these cards with less than optimal firmware and improve it
> once they know how many suckers bought it in the first place.
>
> Personally, I'm going to pass, as things are tight right now, and that
> $25 will actually fill up my car with gas now.
>
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 8:48 AM,  <jrnosee at gmail.com> wrote:
> > NOOOOOOOOO...... This is the card I was talking about earlier!  If you
> get
> > this card be prepared for a headache!!!  I originally bought it when it
> was
> > introduced to the market by woot.com (they set up some deal to release
> it
> > first).
> >
> > 1.) ATSC/QAM/NTSC = ATSC is a pain enough to set up in Windows (Vista
> > x64...x86 may be easier?) but QAM is just now getting support w/ beta
> > drivers. I have yet to get a quality HD show to work with this board.
>  Tried
> > w/ Mythbuntu and I'm still fighting issues w/ my video driver & this
> card,
> > so not much luck there.  NTSC has never worked for me in linux, but did
> in
> > Windows....
> >
> > 2.) FM...haven't even tried
> >
> > 3.) IR Remote...ok, so that kinda works as advertised.
> >
> > 4.) Linux...best be using the LATEST kernel or it's a hack-job to get
> this
> > board to work.
> >
> > 5.) Software encoded...use a POWERFUL system.  I tried it on a single
> core
> > 3GHz and had troubles...but they could all be software problems....still,
> > when encoding HD it seems to suck up a ton of CPU usage.
> >
> > IF anyone DOES get this and get's it to work I'd LOVE to know what you
> > did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I bought it and now I'm stuck
> > trying to get it to work....
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