Kaya, On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Kaya Saman<SamanKaya@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > in an earlier post I was responded to that my old WinTV USB 1 Tuner would > never work under Linux due to bad and complicated coding which (since no one > uses that tuner anymore) will never be looked at. I don't think that's true -- I didn't see your earlier post, but I can only assume that your WinTV USB 1 Tuner uses the NT003 / NT004 chipsets, supported by the usbvision driver -- did you try that? > So I am in need of a new tuner! Better off getting a new one anyway, since analog TV will disappear eventually and DTV is all that will be around. > This is a dilemma as I need analog TV.... since I will be using it for > watching stuff through a satellite receiver but also analog terrestrial TV > too as where I will be taking it to doesn't have digital TV at best the have > cable. > > I was considering going for the Hauppauge WinTV HVR-900HD. I am not sure if > it will be compatible though with the global regions I will use it in which > is UK that I know it has support for as I will buy from here which is PAL I > but then also Turkey which I think is PAL Beta if I'm not mistaken?? > > More importantly though is it supported under Linux?? I use KUbuntu 9.04 > which is pretty up to date. I am just a bit worried about this part since > the site says that as of June 2008 there is no support... of course we are > in August 2009 so maybe in a year it might have been integrated into the > later kernels?? > Taken from here: > http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-900H > > What's everyone's verdict? Any suggestions would be great! The HVR-900H is currently *not* supported under Linux, and it does not seem that it will get such support anytime in the near future, unfortunately. Please note, I am only speaking for the HVR-900H ... other flavors of the HVR900 are fully functional and supported, just not the "H" version. If you're looking for a well-supported USB hybrid device, I would recommend one of the standard "HVR-900" sticks, or even better, the HVR-1900 . The HVR1900 is a usb device that does Digital DVB-T and analog (PAL / NTSC) both. The analog side has a hardware mpeg encoder -- this is perfect if you intend to use the device for recordings. HVR1900 is fully supported under Linux. I hope this helps. Regards, Mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
