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Hardware MPEG2 TV Tuners Compared
EconolineCrush writes "The Tech Report has put together an intriguing comparison of TV tuner cards with hardware MPEG2 acceleration from ATI, eVGA, and Hauppauge. The article examines CPU utilization for typical PVR tasks and highlights some very apparent image quality differences between the three cards. Testing was apparently done with Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, but does anyone have experience with the cards in MythTV?"
More importantly, does anyone have experience with usb tv tuners like the Hauppage WinTV-PVR-USB2 with MythTV ?
My guess is that you're going to be waiting a very long time. Until someone produces *robust* USB drivers for Linux that don't choke on the slightest change or weird piece of hardware, it's going to be somewhat doubtful that useable TV card drivers are going to exist.
Your best bet is to go to the store and find the cheapest BT878-based PCI tuner you can find. Plug it in, compile all the BT878 stuff (or install SUSE or MythTV) and enjoy. You'll save yourself a lot of pain and anguish.
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