USB-based personal video recorder?

[Albert Graham]

Robert,

One of the best sources of information regarding these cards and their 
use in Linux is probably the MythTV mailing list and of course the website.

http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

http://mythtv.org/

Albert.


Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Bruce Hyatt wrote:
>
>   
>> --- "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>>   i'm thinking about wandering out today and picking up a USB TV
>>> tuner to play with (no experience with those yet), and a friend
>>> suggested a combination of the hauppauge WinTV-HVR 950 and the
>>> xawtv app.
>>>
>>>   any thoughts on that?  reasons to avoid that particular combo?
>>> alternative recommendations?  thanks.
>>>       
>
>   
>> My two cents is that speaking from experience, Win-anything_new
>> plug-n-play can be a problem. Someone always has to develop a
>> driver.
>>     
>
>   well, in a few minutes of googling, i've found enough to convince me
> that it's doable and that others have done it, so i'm going to start
> piecing together the info and see if i can come up with a coherent
> recipe.  but if anyone's already gone thru this and has the
> instructions, that would be cool.
>
>   to recap, i now own a hauppauge wintv-hvr 950 hybrid tv stick, and
> wanted to see how well i could pull in local (OTA) HDTV signals and
> play them.  i've already had xawtv recommended to me as the viewing
> app, and i'm guessing i have to download and build the latest module
> based on what i read here:
>
> http://lunapark6.com/usb-hdtv-tuner-stick-for-windows-linux-hauppauge-wintv-hvr-950.html
>
>   anyone who wants to jump in with more guidance, go wild.
>
> rday
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