Re: [tlug] tv tuners question

[Edward Middleton <edward@example.com>]

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.
>
> A little background - I live in Ireland. My wife is Japanese and would
> like to be able to watch Japanese TV, we're over here for a few weeks
> and plan to put this box in her parents' house. I'm the only one who
> knows anything technical but I have no knowledge of Japanese
> standards. I have about 3 weeks to get this done. I've switched to
> using Ubuntu on all my computers so a solution that works well with
> that would be best but I'm open to others.
[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;)

Edward

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