Sid Boyce wrote: > Cristo Saulo Bola?os Trujillo wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> I'm thinking about buying a dvb-t card (Avermedia 771 PCI or Haupauge >> Nova-T), mainly for recording programs from TV, right, the question is: >> how good is the quality ? and resolution ? >> >> Does recording gather much cpu ? I'm running an Ahtlon 2000 XP+ with >> Ubuntu. >> >> Thanks! >> > > I have the Hauppauge Nova-T PCI working from Mandrake 10.1+kernel 2.6.13 > to Mandriva 2006 and it's been fine on all kernels up to 2.6.15-git1 > without patches. > I installed the Kworld V-Stream DVB-T on vanilla SuSE 10.0 at my > daughter's, I just plugged it in and powered up. I was impressed with > this cheaper card so much I've installed one on my SuSE 10.0 box with > bleeding edged kernels. In both cases I'm using xawtv from bytesex.org > snapshots and kaffeine with xine-lib I built as SuSE's version doesn't > handle certain formats. Mythtv also works fine on the SuSE box, but I > have setup problems with it on Mandriva 2006. > I'm pleased with both, just wished I'd tried the V-Stream first, would > have saved me some cash. > Regards > Sid. I forgot to mention that the daughter's box is a Athlon 900 with 256M and a FX5200 128M, but I haven't tried it on recording. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks
