Linux PVR

[Chris Bier]

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Adrian Gordinier wrote:
| On Thursday 23 December 2004 12:22 pm, Brad wrote:
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|>I have a MythTV box about 90% functional.  I am just working through
|>getting the IR receiver and serial port control of my cable box going.
|>MyhtTV is a really nice setup.  I built it on Fedora Core 3 and followed
|>Jarod Wilson's guide at http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php.  Let me
|>know if you need more information.
|>
|>Brad
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| I too am using the same website guide but I picked up two WinTV Go Cards
| because everywhere I read it seemed like those were good ones to use
but I
| can't get the tuners to work. They are using the bt878 chip. Anybody
have any
| luck with them. If there is an easier card maybe I can ebay them. I had
| started out with one of the pvr's some new one pvr100 or pvr150 I got at
| Microcenter. It also had couldn't get the tuner to work and it also as
i read
| wouldn't do closed captioning. I have had better luck on linux with my
old
| ati all-in-wonder as far as tuners go but you can't use it with myth i
| believe.
|
| Adrian

I use a WinTV Go with the bt878 kernel driver.  It works pretty well.
You also need the I2C driver and I2C bit-banging driver.

Chris
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