[mythtvnz] Hardware Recommendations

[Stephen Worthington]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:36:10 +1300, you wrote:

>> > I'll also need some tuners.  I've had a quick look around and found the TBS
>> One thing you should consider is that this card is PCI-E whereas you
>> were talking before about PCI slots...
>
>I'm a bit out of touch with the hardware world.  I'd assume most new
>computers would have a PCI-E socket?  I'll check the spec's of
>whatever I decide to purchase.

There are far fewer PCIe cards with Linux drivers than there are PCI
cards.  And the PCIe drivers can be very new and are not available in
the kernels in common use.  I am just fighting a problem like that -
my TeVii S470 DVB-S2 card is only supported by a newer version of V4L
that is not in the current Mythbuntu 9.04 kernels.  And when I install
a newer V4L or newer kernel with the new V4L builtin, my DVB-T tuners
stop working with MythTV (although they still work with Kaffeine).