ATSC tuners (was: Re: New port: pvrxxx for Hauppauge PVR150/500)

John-Mark Gurney gurney_j at resnet.uoregon.edu
Sun Oct 15 17:42:33 UTC 2006


Dieter wrote this message on Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 16:34 +0100:
> > The only supported ATSC tuner that I know about is the DViCO FusionHDTV5
> > Lite that I wrote a driver for...
> 
> Last I read, you were still having problems, glad to hear it is considered
> supported now!

Looks like Linux finally found out that they were missing the ability
to read the SNR from the chip...  I'll add that to my capture program
shortly...

I haven't had any issues w/ it for a while...

> >  (It is/was the least expensive at ~$90)
> 
> Zipzoomfly is selling the Artec T14A for US$59.99 including "free" shipping.
> It is a USB device rather than PCI.

Looks like a good device...  I'd be more interested in USB hardware if
we had a better USB stack...  I do know of the other USB stack under
construction, but don't have enough interest to try it...

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