Dan Beimborn wrote:
Wondering if anyone could recommend a cheap linux-friendly tv tuner card?
Funny you should say that, I just bought a Hauppage Nova-t (digital terrestrial) card from dabs.com (£70) that allows you to watch all the freeview channels, depending on the reception in your area, it arrived this morning. Check http://www.dtg.org.uk/retailer/coverage.html to see which channels you should be able to receive.
The card is pretty cheap for a digital tv card because it doesn't include and mpeg deoder on the actual card itself, it's all done in software which apparently effects the performance, but it works brilliantly in Windows with the supplied applications. It also comes with a fully featured infra-red remote control which I really wasn't expecting!
iDunno was just trying to help me get it working and I'm now looking into the drivers at http://www.linuxtv.org which are supposed to support the card. I'm looking at using xine media player to watch TV and I'm also hoping to be able to stream the channels over my network so I can watch them on any PC in the house! If anyone has any experience of getting TV cards to run in Linux I'd love to hear from you as I'm struggling a bit at the moment.
Thanks
-- Ben "tola" Francis