I use the WinTV- 250 in my MythTV box in my living room. I freakin love it! I plan on getting a few more of these cards since MythTV supports multiple tuners for recording multiple shows at once. MythTV is very feature rich already for only being at version 0.11 The onboard mpeg2 encoder chip takes ALOT of load off the main CPU. So if you want multiple tuners this saves on CPU usage a TON. MythTV supports networked slaves so you can watch live tv and recorded shows on other computers in your house even if they dont have tv tuners at all. So you want to keep the CPU usage as low as possible so it can serve data to multiple clients, and record shows without heavy load. Getting the WinTV card to work was a bit difficult, but was well worth it. It comes with a remote control that I do have working with LIRC. Like all my machines, this is a Debian box, there is a mythtv debian source for apt. I then installed mythtv on a few of my debian workstations around the house and can then watch from my computer monitor when I am not in the living room. I turned down the quality level a bit on the card, and it records about 1.2 Gig for an hour show. I am pretty happy around that level. When I get an Array for storage, I will turn the quality level up. Wayne Johnson wrote: >I'm looking to add video capture to my RH Linux box. I've been looking at >cards and come up with two that I think I like: > >Kworld TV Tuner, Video Capture card with Remote, Model KW-TV878RF >Price: 39.00 > >Hauppauge WinTV-PVR 250 Model# 980 PCI TV Tuner Card >Price: 145.00 > >Both support the 640x480 I targeted as a minimum resolution. Being NTSC >is 525 line interlaced, the extra 720x480 the Hauppage supports doesn't >seem justified by the extra cost. > >Anyone used these? Have recommendations? Tips? > >TIA, > > > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list