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OSX + TV Card

QueBert

QueBert

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I did Google this but I'm curious as I didn't find info on exactly what I was looking for. I picked up an ATi PCI-E HD TV tuner which doesn't have OSX drivers. My question is, has anyone used a TV tuner in a Virtual XP box on OSX? I really don't want to boot into Windows every time I want to watch TV, and I definitely don't want to stay in Windows. I'm not even sure if this is possible, but I hope it is.
 
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I'm pretty sure that a virtual OS won't allow you to use a TV card. Essentially, the hardware is being emulated and other than drives and networking, it can't actually access your Mac's hardware like the PCI bus.

Beyond that, a virtual machine wouldn't cut it for ATSC video playback anyway, especially with automatic time shifting. (Which virtually any TV software will do, even when watching 'live'.)

Best bet is to get a USB or network ATSC tuner for Mac.

Unless you can find a much cheaper USB tuner for Mac, and you have an ethernet network that your watching computer(s) are wired to, I highly recommend the single tuner HDHomerun for $80. This tuner is set-it-and forget it, and adds ATSC to every (wired) computer on a home network.
 
It looks like Xen and Linux KVM support PCI passthrough to guests, but I don't think any other virtualization implementations do.
 
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