I'm on my fourth PC TV Tuner solution, an external Hauppauge WinTv PVR (USB 2). All the previous were PCI cards. All worked out of the box, but had tons of driver problems and eventually froze (program/system level) to various extents. The external unit is NOT perfect, but plays a lot nicer with everything else (huge collection of CODECS, etc.) I'd LOVE to get the unit working with Linux, but for now its been great for recording to MPEG-2 files (2/4/6 Mb/sec). Cheers!
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I'm on my fourth PC TV Tuner solution, an external Hauppauge WinTv PVR (USB 2). All the previous were PCI cards. All worked out of the box, but had tons of driver problems and eventually froze (program/system level) to various extents. The external unit is NOT perfect, but plays a lot nicer with everything else (huge collection of CODECS, etc.) I'd LOVE to get the unit working with Linux, but for now its been great for recording to MPEG-2 files (2/4/6 Mb/sec). Cheers!