On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 16:28 -0600, Dennis J Harrison Jr wrote:
> Hope I am not emailing you out of turn here :
Well, I usually ignore personal emails related to driver development
that don't have a particular stated need for confidentiality - I like to
keep development of linux drivers out in the open.
So, I hope you don't mind that I Cc: the ivtv-users list because:
a. you did your homework, :)
b. you had a good question, and
c. others may benefit from the answer.
> I see the thread -
> http://ivtvdriver.org/pipermail/ivtv-users/2008-July/008462.html
>
> I was wondering what your experience has been with this card.
I have just had positive feedback and a fix submitted for the PVR-2100
from someone on the linux-media list who uses the card to tune to RF
PAL-D stations. The latest fix to get the tuner working properly on
this card can be found at:
http://linuxtv.org/hg/~awalls/cx18-pvr2100
The DVR-3100H is essentially the same card except with DVB-T receive
capability as well.
> I am
> looking to setup a mythtv box in the house - and I am stuck on
> satellite. The only way I can see to get hd content out of the
> receivers are hdmi and component. My understanding is that no hdmi
> capture cards work properly under linux (hours of google - is all I
> have to go on for this though). So that leaves component capture, and
> the leadtek pvr2100 would be the best bang for the buck (I think?).
Well keep in mind for this card that:
a. you may need to buy a component video adjunct cable & bracket from
Leadtek. It may not come standard with the card.
b. the cx18 driver currently does not support Component video for any
card. It would be a non-trivial effort for me to add it to the cx18
driver, but not terribly hard either. I do not have hardware with which
to test, though.
c. there may be some hardware specific GPIO settings to enable the
component video inputs that I don't know about. I probably can ask
Leadtek for those specific details if I need them - Leadtek is linux
friendly in my experience.
> As well as being on the pci bus instead of usb (like the hauppage
> device that does component in). Which I figured would be the best of
> both worlds?
Well, there is an advantage to being out of the PC chassis when it comes
to EMI reduction for RF signal reception.
Also a PCIe card that meets your needs would likely be preferable to a
PCI one. PCI slots are getting hard to come by nowadays.
I hope that helps you make a decision.
Regards,
Andy
> Thanks for your time,
> Dennis Harrison
_______________________________________________
ivtv-users mailing list
ivtv-users@ivtvdriver.org
http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
> Hope I am not emailing you out of turn here :
Well, I usually ignore personal emails related to driver development
that don't have a particular stated need for confidentiality - I like to
keep development of linux drivers out in the open.
So, I hope you don't mind that I Cc: the ivtv-users list because:
a. you did your homework, :)
b. you had a good question, and
c. others may benefit from the answer.
> I see the thread -
> http://ivtvdriver.org/pipermail/ivtv-users/2008-July/008462.html
>
> I was wondering what your experience has been with this card.
I have just had positive feedback and a fix submitted for the PVR-2100
from someone on the linux-media list who uses the card to tune to RF
PAL-D stations. The latest fix to get the tuner working properly on
this card can be found at:
http://linuxtv.org/hg/~awalls/cx18-pvr2100
The DVR-3100H is essentially the same card except with DVB-T receive
capability as well.
> I am
> looking to setup a mythtv box in the house - and I am stuck on
> satellite. The only way I can see to get hd content out of the
> receivers are hdmi and component. My understanding is that no hdmi
> capture cards work properly under linux (hours of google - is all I
> have to go on for this though). So that leaves component capture, and
> the leadtek pvr2100 would be the best bang for the buck (I think?).
Well keep in mind for this card that:
a. you may need to buy a component video adjunct cable & bracket from
Leadtek. It may not come standard with the card.
b. the cx18 driver currently does not support Component video for any
card. It would be a non-trivial effort for me to add it to the cx18
driver, but not terribly hard either. I do not have hardware with which
to test, though.
c. there may be some hardware specific GPIO settings to enable the
component video inputs that I don't know about. I probably can ask
Leadtek for those specific details if I need them - Leadtek is linux
friendly in my experience.
> As well as being on the pci bus instead of usb (like the hauppage
> device that does component in). Which I figured would be the best of
> both worlds?
Well, there is an advantage to being out of the PC chassis when it comes
to EMI reduction for RF signal reception.
Also a PCIe card that meets your needs would likely be preferable to a
PCI one. PCI slots are getting hard to come by nowadays.
I hope that helps you make a decision.
Regards,
Andy
> Thanks for your time,
> Dennis Harrison
_______________________________________________
ivtv-users mailing list
ivtv-users@ivtvdriver.org
http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users