List of support TV tuner card on Linux mint and How to

[Detonate]

I have been watching TV on my PC for years with a Hauppauge PVR-150. I feed the card by composite cable from my Dish Network DVR Receiver. I use VLC for viewing. I use the following command to start VLC in TV viewing mode.

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/usr/bin/vlc pvr:// :pvr-device=/dev/video0 :pvr-channel=2 :live-caching=300 %U

Works great!!

[DrHu]

Hauppauge has been a standard selection for ages, and I can't remember the name of another one that reported itself as exclusively Linux..
https://www.linux.com/component/content ... s/437-bttv
--a fuller guide to TV cards + Linux..

[Detonate]

My Hauppauge PVR-150 uses the ivtv driver.

[Neuraleanus]

No luck with the WinTV-HVR-1250, I tried both goiing directly to the cable connector in the wall and adding an attenna, couldn't find any channels. However, switched over to a WinTV-HVR-950Q, which uses USB, and after following the instructions given at:

http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-950Q

I have managed to get tv working from the cable box that Comcast had supplied. For a TV app I am using tvtime. One issue was probably the lack of a working analog tuner on the 1250.

Lee

[cjorsinger]

However, switched over to a WinTV-HVR-950Q, which uses USB, and after following the instructions given at:

http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-950Q

I have managed to get tv working from the cable box that Comcast had supplied. For a TV app I am using tvtime. One issue was probably the lack of a working analog tuner on the 1250.

Lee

For what it's worth, I've been using the 950Q for a while now to watch U.S. broadcast TV. It works with both MythTV and Xine, though the latter is always an iffy proposition. The only tricky thing was if you don't have the WinTV plugged into a high-speed USB port, it won't work, and the only place I found any mention of this being the problem was in the syslog.

There are different version of the 950Q out there, so here's the output of

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lsusb -v

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Bus 001 Device 003: ID 2040:7200 Hauppauge
Device Descriptor:
  bLength                18
  bDescriptorType         1
  bcdUSB               2.00
  bDeviceClass            0 (Defined at Interface level)
  bDeviceSubClass         0
  bDeviceProtocol         0
  bMaxPacketSize0        64
  idVendor           0x2040 Hauppauge
  idProduct          0x7200
  bcdDevice            0.05
  iManufacturer           1
  iProduct                2
  iSerial                10
  bNumConfigurations      1