Well I just got my first real, minor PVR setup going today. I opted for the Hauppage 274-PVR, it was cheap, very cheap even. It ran me 53$ from newegg. there really isn’t much to review… I mean it just worked and does what it’s supposed to, quick install. the card is _tiny_ so I had no problem wedging it under my passively cooled monster of a graphics Card (Biostar Nvidia 7300GT 256mb) IVTV, which comes stop with ubuntu, including the needed firmware picked it up first restart, no self compiling, it just worked. I easily set up the card in MythTV (Selfcompiled from SVN, easy stuff, long build though…) and within minutes I was watching and recording my favorite shows. The picture quality to cost ratio is amazing, I get the quality of standard rips you would see around the net with damned near instant hardware encoding. I have basic non digital cable anyway… so perfect picture was not much of a concern. My only real problem is on gutsy, with the latest nvidia drivers (tried with glx-new as well) and compiz fusion going, running myth frontend crashes X… a but of a pain, but no real bother. I wrote a short script to kill compiz and run metacity, while killing avant, cairo clock, etc. All nicely called /usr/bin/mythprep I’ll finish up with some screens of my myth install.
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