Re: [tlug] tv tuners question

["Fergal Daly" <fergal@example.com>]

On 13/12/06, Edward Middleton <edward@example.com> wrote:
> Fergal Daly wrote:
> > I'm planning on building a TV recording box over the next couple of
> > weeks but I'm totally new to Japanese TV (I've built a box that works
> > just fine in Ireland). Has anyone got any advice on what cards work
> > well with Linux and whether I should be aiming at digital terrestrial
> > broadcasts or capturing the cable feed. There seems to be a huge TV
> > capture market here but my Japanese skills are extremely limited so
> > doing research is  a bit tricky.
> [1]This is the one I have played round with.  It has native mpeg4
> compression and v4l2 drivers[2].  It also works with mythtv.  I have to
> say that I am currently having problems with the drivers, something to
> do with upgrading udev or hotplug, getting it working again is somewhere
> on the list of things to do when I get some free time;)

Thanks, that looks nice. I see it at sofmap for 15,900. I also see the
PCI version with the same chip for 4,980 at www.tzone.com. But I can't
find much info about whether it works

http://sea-mew.jp/nox/data/linux/PX-TV432P.html

suggests it's possible but maybe requires patches etc. I don't want to
get into a lot of messing around given my time constraints.

I was wandering around tzone and saw lots of mini-itx (Via Epia etc).
With mp4 built into the card, I figure I could get away with the
cheapest 600Mhz board

http://www.tzone.com/diy/goods.jsp?cat=0%2C2%2C355&goodsSeqno=59482

but their website doesn't show any mini-itx cases. Sofmap has 2 but
they seem kinda pricey, ~14,000 (more than the motherboard) maybe I
just don't know the price of mini-itx cases...

F

> Edward
>
> 1. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Plextor_ConvertX_PVR
> 2. http://oss.wischip.com/
>
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