[mythtvnz] New silent Nvidia card / USB DVB-S tuner

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Stephen Worthington <
stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> Before the GST goes up next month, I thought it was about time to
> upgrade the video card in my MythTV box.  It currently has an Nvidia
> 8400GS silent card, which is OK but does not do the best deinterlace
> modes.  I have found this:
>
>  http://www.pp.co.nz/products.php?pp_id=AA22908
>
> which is a silent GT220 card.  So, is a GT220 all that is needed for
> the highest interlace modes in MythTV?  Does anyone have any other
> suggestions?
>
> And since the silent GT220 cards all need two slots, it looks like I
> will need to get a USB DVB-S (or preferably DVB-S2) tuner.  So far I
> have not found any in NZ that are supported - the old Hauppauge DVB-S
> one seems to have gone out of production.  Any suggestions?
>
>
 I believe the 220 is the current de rigeur card, but i base that only from
lurking on mythtv-users

Suggestions for tuners? Separate backend from frontend!



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