On 10/30/2011 12:44:33 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Alex <mysqlstudent@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm interested in a TV tuner card that I can connect to my roof > > antenna with a RG6 coax, and wondered if anyone had any > suggestions? > > I've used the Happauge cards in the past, but that was quite some > time > > ago. I've found the linuxtv.org page, and although they have a list > of > > available TV tuners, they don't really give any impression on which > > have the best features, etc. > > > > I'd probably also like to set up MythTV at some point. > > > > Anyone have any suggestions? > > There's plenty of history in the list archives as this is a pretty > frequent question. > > I'm really happy with my HDHomerun 3. I'm not sure if you're familiar > with them, but they are a stand alone tuner that basically puts the > MPEG2 stream from ATSC (Over the air) or unencrypted cable (QAM) on > your network. It's nice because you don't have to worry about kernel > drivers and it also means you don't have to run your coax cable to > your computer in a combined frontend/backend MythTV setup. My HDHR is > in the closet with the rest of the networking equipment and my MythTV > FE/BE is in the entertainment center. I can second the recommendation of the HDHomerun (mine is a 2, so no cable). I can also offer a set of Perl scripts to manage scraping of shows from zap2it and programming of the recording. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
