Best Stable Linux TV HDTV tuner card?

[Pharmdeity]

What suggestions do y'all have for a good and stable hdtv tuner card for use with Linux?

Thanks

 

[drag]

http://www.pchdtv.com

Specificly designed for Linux. It can do over the air HDTV and can capture off of cable if your lucky. (won't decrypt encryted streams and such, see websites for details)

 

[Pharmdeity]

Thanks for the info i.e. pchdtv. I just have one concern after reading the info on it. It appears to use software only decoding of the hd signal. Are there any boards that use an onboard chip to free the cpu from doing this? Maybe decoding the signal isn't that labor intensive?

Thanks

 

[drag]

HDTV performance on decoding shouldn't be a big deal as long as you have a decent video card and a decent cpu.

They claim 1.2ghz with nvidia card should be enough, or a 2ghz cpu with lesser cards. If your lucky you have a card that supports XvMC and you get hardware decode acceleration. See their FAQ for more details.

Also this page has a lot of examples of playback using Mythtv, which has the Tivo-like pvr functions. (bit more cpu intensive sometimes)
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/XvMC