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I'm sorry, I can't recommend a good stereo tuner at the moment, but I would like to caution you on the use of Redhat 8. There are tons of little tweaks that are necessary to get MythTV running on RH8, and I had a hell of a time getting it to work...
----- Original Message -----
From: Merle Reine
To: mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Cc: mythtv-users@snowman.net
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 2:05 PM
Subject: [mythtv-users] Best stereo TV tuner card for Linux?


I have tried to many cards but would like to get the definitive best supported TV tuner card for mythtv.

I plan to use Red Hat 8, and want: stereo sound, remote, svideo or rca out to tv, and of course bttv support for pass through of the pci bus to eliminate my current situation of pass through cable.

Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

Below is the list of cards I have tried but all needed pass through cables:

http://info.lindows.com/tomw/tuner_cards.html
I like the: Happaugue WinTV 44371 Rev D123 but I still had to use pass through cables.

Thanks
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Thanks for the heads up. I had no problem installing on RedHat 8
actually. I just followed the excellent FAQ's. As long as I followed
the info on RedHat, it worked fine. Just trying to do away with the
pass through cable on my current card.


On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 14:11, Albert Santoni wrote:

> I'm sorry, I can't recommend a good stereo tuner at the moment, but I
> would like to caution you on the use of Redhat 8. There are tons of
> little tweaks that are necessary to get MythTV running on RH8, and I
> had a hell of a time getting it to work...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Merle Reine
> To: mythtv-dev@snowman.net
> Cc: mythtv-users@snowman.net
> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 2:05 PM
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Best stereo TV tuner card for Linux?
>
> I have tried to many cards but would like to get the
> definitive best supported TV tuner card for mythtv.
>
> I plan to use Red Hat 8, and want: stereo sound, remote,
> svideo or rca out to tv, and of course bttv support for pass
> through of the pci bus to eliminate my current situation of
> pass through cable.
>
> Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
>
> Below is the list of cards I have tried but all needed pass
> through cables:
>
> http://info.lindows.com/tomw/tuner_cards.html
> I like the: Happaugue WinTV 44371 Rev D123 but I still had
> to use pass through cables.
>
> Thanks
> --
> Merle Reine <merle.reine@lindows.com>
> Lindows.com Hardware Certification
>
>
> ______________________________________________________________
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On that note, why does everyone try to do away with the pass-through cable? I have an ATi TV-Wonder VE, and it's mono... Will I gain anything by using btaudio? Is it worth the headache? (I actually had it kinda working before)....
----- Original Message -----
From: Merle Reine
To: Discussion about mythtv
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 5:36 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Best stereo TV tuner card for Linux?


Thanks for the heads up. I had no problem installing on RedHat 8 actually. I just followed the excellent FAQ's. As long as I followed the info on RedHat, it worked fine. Just trying to do away with the pass through cable on my current card.


On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 14:11, Albert Santoni wrote:
I'm sorry, I can't recommend a good stereo tuner at the moment, but I would like to caution you on the use of Redhat 8. There are tons of little tweaks that are necessary to get MythTV running on RH8, and I had a hell of a time getting it to work...
----- Original Message -----
From: Merle Reine
To: mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Cc: mythtv-users@snowman.net
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 2:05 PM
Subject: [mythtv-users] Best stereo TV tuner card for Linux?

I have tried to many cards but would like to get the definitive best supported TV tuner card for mythtv.

I plan to use Red Hat 8, and want: stereo sound, remote, svideo or rca out to tv, and of course bttv support for pass through of the pci bus to eliminate my current situation of pass through cable.

Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

Below is the list of cards I have tried but all needed pass through cables:

http://info.lindows.com/tomw/tuner_cards.html
I like the: Happaugue WinTV 44371 Rev D123 but I still had to use pass through cables.

Thanks


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Lindows.com Hardware Certification



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I have a 2 tuner setup. An ati tv wonder and ati tv wonder ve. I got
the tv wonder (not ve) working via btaudio (hence no pass through cable)
freeing up my onboard audio which I will use as an all purpose linux
audio device so that mythtv will have exclusive use of my sblive.


On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 17:41, Albert Santoni wrote:
> On that note, why does everyone try to do away with the pass-through
> cable? I have an ATi TV-Wonder VE, and it's mono... Will I gain
> anything by using btaudio? Is it worth the headache? (I actually had
> it kinda working before)....
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Merle Reine
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 5:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Best stereo TV tuner card for
> Linux?
>
> Thanks for the heads up. I had no problem installing on
> RedHat 8 actually. I just followed the excellent FAQ's. As
> long as I followed the info on RedHat, it worked fine. Just
> trying to do away with the pass through cable on my current
> card.
>
>
> On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 14:11, Albert Santoni wrote:
> > I'm sorry, I can't recommend a good stereo tuner at the
> > moment, but I would like to caution you on the use of Redhat
> > 8. There are tons of little tweaks that are necessary to get
> > MythTV running on RH8, and I had a hell of a time getting it
> > to work...
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Merle Reine
> > To: mythtv-dev@snowman.net
> > Cc: mythtv-users@snowman.net
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 2:05 PM
> > Subject: [mythtv-users] Best stereo TV tuner card
> > for Linux?
> >
> > I have tried to many cards but would like to get the
> > definitive best supported TV tuner card for mythtv.
> >
> > I plan to use Red Hat 8, and want: stereo sound,
> > remote, svideo or rca out to tv, and of course bttv
> > support for pass through of the pci bus to eliminate
> > my current situation of pass through cable.
> >
> > Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Below is the list of cards I have tried but all
> > needed pass through cables:
> >
> > http://info.lindows.com/tomw/tuner_cards.html
> > I like the: Happaugue WinTV 44371 Rev D123 but I
> > still had to use pass through cables.
> >
> > Thanks
> > --
> > Merle Reine <merle.reine@lindows.com>
> > Lindows.com Hardware Certification
> >
> >
> > ____________________________________________________
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > mythtv-users mailing list
> > mythtv-users@snowman.net
> > http://lists.snowman.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
> >
> >
> > ____________________________________________________________
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > mythtv-users mailing list
> > mythtv-users@snowman.net
> > http://lists.snowman.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>
> --
> Merle Reine <merle.reine@lindows.com>
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>
>
> ______________________________________________________________
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>
>
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Chris <cisip@sprintmail.com>

Really? I run RedHat 8.0 and have had no problem... I even got Qt 3.1.2
installed *with* Xft support and *no* patches. Of course, I've adopted
the practice of installing everything from source tarballs, which kind
of defeats the purpose of an rpm-based system :-)

I'm going to give Gentoo a try as soon as I can figure out how to get my
wireless network card up and running with the stage1/2/3 install.

-Joe C.

On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 17:11, Albert Santoni wrote:
> I'm sorry, I can't recommend a good stereo tuner at the moment, but I would like to caution you on the use of Redhat 8. There are tons of little tweaks that are necessary to get MythTV running on RH8, and I had a hell of a time getting it to work...

Merle Reine wrote
> I have tried to many cards but would like to get the definitive best
> supported TV tuner card for mythtv.

can't say that it's the "best", since it's the only TV card I've
tried under linux in the last couple years, but several folks here,
including myself (in a recent btaudio thread) have mentioned success
using btaudio with the Hauppauge WinTV-dbx Model 401.

-Chris

Hi,
I guess that there will be less loss/noise and one less bit of wire around
the back of the PC, not to mention the fact that you get your LineIN
connector back for use with other things...

Also, generally, there have been a few problems with newbies to MythTV
getting sound to work along the lines of "my sound is out of sync with the
video" and "when I shutdown MythTV, the sound is not muted" where they have
forgot to mute LineID and set it to record etc. etc.

I guess that if you have a working system, that is satisfactory, I can't
think of any good reason to change it.
Getting btaudio to work can be just as much a headache depending on your
individual setup....

Regards,
Ralph


-----Original Message-----
From: Albert Santoni [mailto:GameGod@sympatico.ca]
Sent: 26 March 2003 22:42
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Best stereo TV tuner card for Linux?


On that note, why does everyone try to do away with the pass-through cable?
I have an ATi TV-Wonder VE, and it's mono... Will I gain anything by using
btaudio? Is it worth the headache? (I actually had it kinda working
before)....
----- Original Message -----
From: Merle Reine
To: Discussion about mythtv
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 5:36 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Best stereo TV tuner card for Linux?


Thanks for the heads up. I had no problem installing on RedHat 8 actually.
I just followed the excellent FAQ's. As long as I followed the info on
RedHat, it worked fine. Just trying to do away with the pass through cable
on my current card.

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Thank you. I have one and will try it.

On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 19:58, Chris Palmer wrote:

> Merle Reine wrote
> > I have tried to many cards but would like to get the definitive best
> > supported TV tuner card for mythtv.
>
> can't say that it's the "best", since it's the only TV card I've
> tried under linux in the last couple years, but several folks here,
> including myself (in a recent btaudio thread) have mentioned success
> using btaudio with the Hauppauge WinTV-dbx Model 401.
>
> -Chris
> _______________________________________________
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> mythtv-users@snowman.net
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I have used this one too and it works great. If you want some of the
same features for less $ you can go with the AverTV card. It has the
dbx and a bttv tuner chip for about $49 as compared to $79 for the
WinTV. The Aver is missing the remote control and has no FM tuner,
basically it's no-frills and it works great with btaudio too.

Matt

On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 09:41, Merle Reine wrote:

> Thank you. I have one and will try it.
>
> On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 19:58, Chris Palmer wrote:
>
> > Merle Reine wrote
> > > I have tried to many cards but would like to get the definitive best
> > > supported TV tuner card for mythtv.
> >
> > can't say that it's the "best", since it's the only TV card I've
> > tried under linux in the last couple years, but several folks here,
> > including myself (in a recent btaudio thread) have mentioned success
> > using btaudio with the Hauppauge WinTV-dbx Model 401.
> >
> > -Chris
> > _______________________________________________
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> > mythtv-users@snowman.net
> > http://lists.snowman.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Merle Reine <merle.reine@lindows.com>
>
> Lindows.com Hardware Certification
>
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
>
>
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Matthew Brichacek <mmbrich@ldl.fc.hp.com>

Matt-
Would you mind posting your modules.conf? I have the AverTV Stereo and
just got a WinTV (Model 400) and would like to get at least one using
btaudio.

Thanks,

--Mike

On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 09:16 AM, Matthew Brichacek wrote:

> I have used this one too and it works great.  If you want some of the
> same features for less $ you can go with the AverTV card.  It has the
> dbx and a bttv tuner chip for about $49 as compared to $79 for the
> WinTV.  The Aver is missing the remote control and has no FM tuner,
> basically it's no-frills and it works great with btaudio too.
>
> Matt
>
> On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 09:41, Merle Reine wrote:
>
> Thank you.  I have one and will try it.
>
> On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 19:58, Chris Palmer wrote:
>
> Merle Reine wrote
> > I have tried to many cards but would like to get the definitive best
> > supported TV tuner card for mythtv.
>
> can't say that it's the "best", since it's the only TV card I've
> tried under linux in the last couple years, but several folks here,
> including myself (in a recent btaudio thread) have mentioned success
> using btaudio with the Hauppauge WinTV-dbx Model 401.
>
> -Chris

At 10:16 AM 3/27/2003 -0700, Matthew Brichacek wrote:
>I have used this one too and it works great. If you want some of the same
>features for less $ you can go with the AverTV card. It has the dbx and a
>bttv tuner chip for about $49 as compared to $79 for the WinTV. The Aver
>is missing the remote control and has no FM tuner, basically it's
>no-frills and it works great with btaudio too.
[...]

Aver makes a full line of cards, so writing about "the" AverTV card is a
bit unclear. Can you be more specific about which AverTV model you are
referring to?

Sorry about the vagueness, I don't have the boxes in front of me so I
will re-post tonight with a modules.conf also.

Matt

On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 10:50, Ray Olszewski wrote:

> At 10:16 AM 3/27/2003 -0700, Matthew Brichacek wrote:
> >I have used this one too and it works great. If you want some of the same
> >features for less $ you can go with the AverTV card. It has the dbx and a
> >bttv tuner chip for about $49 as compared to $79 for the WinTV. The Aver
> >is missing the remote control and has no FM tuner, basically it's
> >no-frills and it works great with btaudio too.
> [...]
>
> Aver makes a full line of cards, so writing about "the" AverTV card is a
> bit unclear. Can you be more specific about which AverTV model you are
> referring to?
>
>
>
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Matt wrote:

>I have used this one too and it works great. If you want some of the same
>features for less $ you can go with the AverTV card. It has the dbx and a
>bttv tuner chip for about $49 as compared to $79 for the WinTV. The Aver
>is missing the remote control and has no FM tuner, basically it's no-frills
>and it works great with btaudio too.

Can you post your config (conf.modules, et all)? I imagine my AverTV Studio
is closely related, but my BTAudio is very noisy (on analog, or none on digital)...

TIA,
Thor Johnson