TV Tuner Cards and Cox Communications

[Anthony Boynes]

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Francis Earl <francis.earl at 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
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