[mythtvnz] Quality of WinTV PVR 150

[Steven Mulvay]

That's great Hads, based on Andrew's feedback and yours I'm definitely 
going to buy the PVR-150. :)
The kernel I have is 2.6.25-9.slh.1-686-sidux, this means the audio 
issue won't affect me right?

Cheers,
Steve :)

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:11:06 +1200, Hadley Rich wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 21:31 +1200, Steven Mulvay wrote:
>>  Hi all,
>>  I've decided not to buy the WinTV-HVR-1300 because of some of the 
>>  problems people have had with them and because I found out that 
>>  Freeview is not planning to ever bring DVB-T to Taranaki.
> 
> Yes, Timaru misses out too. Oh well.
> 
>>   So now I'm looking at buying 
>>  the WinTV PVR 150 analogue card. Has anyone had any experience with 
>>  that card, if so how did you find it? Some people in the mythtv-users 
>>  IRC channel said that they had poor quality pictures from them and that 
>>  additional external tuner boxes are needed to get good reception. I 
>>  certainly hope this is the exception rather than the rule. Any comments 
>>  and feedback about the PVR-150 would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> The PVR-150 (and it's siblings) is pretty much the standard card for
> analog OTA or S-Video input really. They work well with slim-to-none CPU
> usage. A poor quality picture would be an exception AFAIK. The ivtv
> drivers have been included in the kernel for a little while now so any
> modern distro they should just work out of the box.
> 
> A small note; 2.6.24 does have a slight issue with "tinny audio" very
> occasionally on some PVR-150 cards but there's a workaround for this.
> 
> hads
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