On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 09:47 +0100, dondi_2006 wrote:
I *might*, some time in the future, use the same box for recording analog and satellite TV shows, but that is quite unlikely, so it's not required. Right now, all I need is a card that gives no trouble with Fedora, has coax or SCART input and HW (PAL) video encoding to copy my movies faster.
Hauppage Win-TV PVR 250
WinTV PVR250 works fine on FC4, either standalone or with MythTV - the latter is recommended. It captures in an MPEG2 format wich only requires minimal processing to become compatible with DVD. Also, since all encoding is done by the card, the CPU load is very low.
If you also plan to play back the movies from the computer to a TV or a VCR, I recommend to purchase the PVR350 which also has a video output which is higher quality SDTV (standard definition TV) than anything you may devise with a regular video card. HDTV is another matter but we don't discuss that now.
MythTV site:
To install it on Fedora, enable the ATrpms repo: create /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo with the following content:
[atrpms] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/fc$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable enabled=0 gpgcheck=1
Import the ATrpms GPG key:
wget http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
Then install MythTV:
yum --enablerepo=atrpms install mythtv-suite
Instructions to configure it are on mythtv.org (generic instructions) and on wilsonet.com (tailored for Fedora and ATrpms):
http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php
MythTV can be configured to run as a normal fullscreen desktop application or, if you purchase the PVR350, it can optionally run in a special environment on the video output of the 350 for the highest quality video output from your computer.