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Hardware Guide
Author(s)
Bill Giannikos (bill2 at giannikos.com.au)
Introduction
The following is a list of capture cards available in Australia which work with MythTV for Australian TV. If you have any more cards to add to the list you can either edit the wiki yourself or send me an email and I'll add it for you.
Capture Cards for STB (Foxtel etc.)
| Card | Compatibility | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 | Yes | The driver for this card is not yet in the kernel, so you will need to download and install the drivers from http://ivtvdriver.org |
| Hauppauge WinTV PVR-500 | Yes | This card contains two MPEG2 compression chips onboard (it looks like 2 PVR-150 cards to the system). The card has a single S-Video port, with a connector that allows an optional expansion bracket to provide the second S-Video port. The driver for this card is not yet in the kernel, so you will need to download and install the drivers from http://ivtvdriver.org |
| AVerMedia M150-PAL | No | There is no sounds output |
| Leadtek DTV-1000T PCI | Yes | This card works with a secondary sound card |
HDHomeRun by silicon Dust at about $300 (two tuners)a much better way to go with myth as it off loads the cpu
The box comes set up for usa need to load firmware dvb easer to use xp do do this
Digital Cards
| Card | Compatibility | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Asus My Cinema-U3100 Mini USB2.0 DVBT Receiver | Yes | This card works fine |
| Hauppage HVR-1100 | Yes | This card works fine |
| Hauppage HVR-1300 | Yes | This is a hybrid analog/digital card. This digital part works fine, don't know about the analog |
| Hauppauge Nova-T-500 | Partial, depending on location | Card sort of works with a recent Linux distributions(kernel supported from 2.6.19), but reception seems poor. I have issues with ABC and SBS in Melbourne. (Works fine with a powered antenna booster) |
| Avermedia AVerTV DVB-T 771 | Yes | Card works fine, except I had problems with corruption when used with the Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 |
| Avermedia AVerTV DVB-T 777 | Yes | This card works fine |
| Leadtek DTV-1000T PCI | Yes | This card works fine |
| Twinhan Ter (and mini Ter) DST | Yes | This card works fine |
| DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T Plus | Yes | This card works fine, but in Feisty 2.6.20 kernel add the following to your /etc/modules file: cx88_dvb |
| HDHomeRun by silicon Dust at about $300 (two tuners)a much better way to go with myth as it off loads the cpu | ||
| The box comes set up for usa need to load firmware dvb easer to use xp do do this |
Discussion
I'm running MythTV 0.21 off Fedora 11, using the atrpms and rpmfusion repositories. I think it helps to track the latest version of whatever distro you run so that the drivers are recent.
I have 3 tuner cards:
Hauppauge Nova-T-500 (dual tuner): works well, no issues.
Avermedia Super 007: Works with recent releases.
LeadTek DTV1000-T: Works mostly, except sometimes something goes haywire and I continually get these messages in the log:
Only a system restart will fix it.
For the motherboard, I'm running an Asus M4N78-PRO that has a Nvidia GeForce 8300 with built-in HDMI output. It takes a little bit of messing around with the ALSA configuration to make the HDMI sound work. Previously I had a ATI based motherboard, and never got the HDMI to work. Avoid ATI based boards. Nvidia has much better native Linux support.
Has anyone had luck with the Compro VideoMate Vista series either the T750f or E900F models.
RE:
Hauppauge Nova-T-500 is an excellent card and should work out of the box with late distros provided
1) Turn on the onboard amplifier or you will get very poor signal strength.
sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/options
Add: options dvb-usb-dib0700 force_lna_activation=1
2)
If you're in Melbourne or Hobart, you might experience intermittent poor reception with ABC and SBS. The problem can be fixed by editing the /etc/modprobe.d/options files, and adding this line:
sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/options
Add: options dib3000mc buggy_sfn_workaround=1
Cheers