DO your research FIRST, and just buy a PVR-250 or PVR-350. Friend of mine didn't listen to me, and went and bought himself a cheap $29 tuner card for $180 -- and no MPEG.
I have an old non-mpeg tuner card, and it works great with MythTV. Dedicate a box to the task. Get a nice TV-Out card that you can live with. Get the remote control, or a longer-range wireless keyboard.
MythTV blows my mind everytime I use it: KnoppMyth [mysettopbox.tv]
The PVR-150 does not work with the ivtv driver or Myth. It is close to working. According to the mailing list, the audio does not work yet. One developer reported a solution. He has not rolled his code back into the main driver yet.
I hope the PVR-500 becomes supported by ivtv. It has two tuners on a single card, a great gain for people building compact MythTV systems.
Be very careful when purchasing hardware for MythTV. It is a fantastic package, but only with the right hardware.
http://ivtv.sourceforge.net/ [sourceforge.net] Join the ivtv-devel mailing list if you want to follow the project and learn about its current status. The project page itself is too far out of date to be very helpful.
http://ivtv.no-ip.com/ [no-ip.com] The ivtv driver is under heavy development. This site by a developer named Chris Kennedy has newer releases of the driver. 0.2.0-rc works well for me.
"I'm a mean green mother from outer space"
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Notes from A MythTV User (Score:5, Informative)
I have an old non-mpeg tuner card, and it works great with MythTV. Dedicate a box to the task. Get a nice TV-Out card that you can live with. Get the remote control, or a longer-range wireless keyboard.
MythTV blows my mind everytime I use it: KnoppMyth [mysettopbox.tv]
Re:Notes from A MythTV User (Score:0)
I'm sure there are differences, but I don't know what they are.
PVR-150 does not work with MythTV. (Score:3, Informative)
I hope the PVR-500 becomes supported by ivtv. It has two tuners on a single card, a great gain for people building compact MythTV systems.
Be very careful when purchasing hardware for MythTV. It is a fantastic package, but only with the right hardware.
Useful sites (Score:2)
http://ivtv.no-ip.com/ [no-ip.com] The ivtv driver is under heavy development. This site by a developer named Chris Kennedy has newer releases of the driver. 0.2.0-rc works well for me.