[ILUG] Linux HTPC

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Daniel Shaw wrote:

> From what I've read online the general opinion seems quite the opposite:
> That the Hauppauge cards are by far the only ones that work very well on
> Linux. I have not in fact been able to find any pointers to a reasonble
> alternative card that is guaranteed to work. Do you perhaps know of
> anything?

The saa7134 cards are cheap and cheerful and sold in Peats for Eur35.  No
assisted mpeg encoding though, your pc will have to take that strain.

By the by, it's well worth looking at a DVB-T card these days as the four
tv channels and most radio stations are now available across a fair bit of
Dublin and the service is supposed to expand both in coverage and channel
selection.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_terrestrial_television_in_Ireland

Gavin