On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Francis Earl <francis.earl@gmail.com> wrote:
I recall there was a presentation done about MythTV in one of the West
Side LUG meetings, so maybe someone can help me with this?
I have tried two different cards now - both via cx88 module
coincidentally. Pinnacle PCTV HD and Hauppage WinTV-DVR-1250 are the
cards, and of course I had similar results: I can watch TV via the
S-Video signal via the cable box using TVTime perfectly fine - this of
course makes DVR functionality rather difficult however.
My question is, has anyone had any better luck with Cox and their TV
Card? I only have around $80-90 to spend, else I'd go with the pcHDTV
HD-5500, but even then it seems to only support unencrypted HD. I am
unsure whether Cox even uses encryption as the tech support wasn't
terribly enlightening, so I'm wondering what you all think?
Have you had any luck using a TV card on Linux with Cox Cable? Can you
make any recommendations for cards I should try that are within my price
range?
Any feedback would be much appreciate, and happy belated holidays :)
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I have Cox, and I've been using a Hauppage WinTV PVR-150 card since
October 2006. It works great with Mythtv. I bought it for about $80
from buy.com. At first I ran it with Fedora, and am now using it with
Gentoo.
One thing - I seem to remember reading in the mythtv forums at one
point that the chipset had changed since I purchased mine, and that
people were not able to get the newer ones to work with mythtv. I do
not know if this is still the case.
Here is some lspci output, in case it might be useful:
05:01.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR 150
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: ivtv
Kernel modules: ivtv
Anthony