On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Bruce Hyatt wrote: > --- "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > i'm thinking about wandering out today and picking up a USB TV > > tuner to play with (no experience with those yet), and a friend > > suggested a combination of the hauppauge WinTV-HVR 950 and the > > xawtv app. > > > > any thoughts on that? reasons to avoid that particular combo? > > alternative recommendations? thanks. > My two cents is that speaking from experience, Win-anything_new > plug-n-play can be a problem. Someone always has to develop a > driver. well, in a few minutes of googling, i've found enough to convince me that it's doable and that others have done it, so i'm going to start piecing together the info and see if i can come up with a coherent recipe. but if anyone's already gone thru this and has the instructions, that would be cool. to recap, i now own a hauppauge wintv-hvr 950 hybrid tv stick, and wanted to see how well i could pull in local (OTA) HDTV signals and play them. i've already had xawtv recommended to me as the viewing app, and i'm guessing i have to download and build the latest module based on what i read here: http://lunapark6.com/usb-hdtv-tuner-stick-for-windows-linux-hauppauge-wintv-hvr-950.html anyone who wants to jump in with more guidance, go wild. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture. http://crashcourse.ca Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA ========================================================================
