[ILUG] Good analogue capture card for use with MythTV

[Marek]

On Sunday 05 October 2008 17:35:29 Michael Watterson wrote:
> There are a very wide variety of Happauge cards, some even
> designed/built different OEM. If it was a few years ago. it's likely
> current ones arn't the same chipset.

Didn't realise there was quite that much variability in their cards.

> Can you be more specific as to model and where/what source of driver?

It's a WinTV PVR-150, which I understand was the basis for their WinTV Express 
card at the time too. The driver is ivtv 
(http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Main_Page), which as I understand it was 
merged into the kernel since some time in the 2.6.2x era.

> I have several analogue  Happauge cards of that era,  it  would be
> good  to have  at  least one working on current version of  Ubuntu.

ivtv covers the PVR 150/250/350/500 and a number of other Conexant-based 
chipsets. The supported hardware section of the wiki has more details, and 
alternate drivers for some not supported hardware.

Cheers,

M