Comparison of TV Tuners
From HTPCnz
| Card | Driver | Works with MythTV? | Hardware-based encoding? | CC Stream? | CC MPEG2? | Notes | Reporter |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aimslab Video Highway Xtreme | bttv | Yes | No | ? | ? | Non-standard internal audio-out pinout, but labeled on PCB. Requires BTTV Module parameters card=14 tuner=2 | |
| ADS Tech Instant TV_Deluxe - PTV305 | kernel>=2.6.20rc2, ,cx88, cx88_blackbird | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Cx23880-19/Cx23416-12/TDA8275+TDA8290 | |
| ATI All-in Wonder | ? | No | NA | NA | NA | Does not work with MythTV | |
| ATI HDTV Wonder | kernel >= 2.6.15, cx88-dvb | Yes | No | ? | ? | broadcast HDTV | |
| ATI TV-Wonder | bttv | Yes | No | Yes | ? | Discontinued | |
| ATI TV-Wonder Pro | cx88xx | Y | N | ? | N | This is the Conexant based card | |
| ATI TV-Wonder VE | bttv | Y | N | Y | ? | Discontinued | |
| AVerMedia M150-D | cx88-blackbird | Yes (with caveats) | Yes | No (?) | No (?) | Has audio issues; see card's wiki entry for details. | |
| AVerMedia M179 | IVTV stable | Y | Y | ? | ? | ||
| AVerMedia DVB-T 771 | bttv I believe | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ||
| AVerMedia DVB-T 777 | saa7134 | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ||
| ComPro VideoMate TV PVR/FM | v4l2 | No | No | ? | ? | MythTV 0.19, Works with KdeTV | |
| Compro VideoMate TV Gold Plus | saa7134 | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Audio capture from PCI bus works, see wiki writeup for more info | |
| DVICO Fusion DTVDVB-T | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | DVB-T, more info, also note Patch for 2.6.12 kernel | |
| DVICO FusionHDTV5 Gold | Kernel >= 2.6.17 | Partial | No | ? | ? | Tested with 2.6.17. Read more at link | |
| DVICO FusionHDTV5 RT Gold | Kernel >= 2.6.15 | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | DVB Driver from linux kernel 2.6.16, Works out of the box since Ubuntu 6.06 more info. The digital and analog tuner are recognized in one single card since Myth 0.20. Myth shows all of the digital and analog inputs including the S-video and RCA inputs on the card. Tested 43 HDTV channels with an indoor digital antenna | |
| DVICO FusionHDTV II (and DVICO FusionHDTV3) | Kernel ?? | ?? | ?? | ? | ? | (hardware details: [1], [2], [3] [4]) ([5] mentions that the "II" and "3" are very similar) | |
| FireWire capture | NA | Yes | NA | ?? | ?? | Caption stream is avail when playing through cable box, but not through mythtv | |
| Hauppauge DEC2000-T | ? | Partial | ? | ? | ? | DVB-T, USB external tuner | |
| Hauppauge Nexus S | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | DVB-S, STV02998 based Mpeg Encoder | |
| Hauppauge PVR-500 | IVTV >= 0.4.0 | Yes | Yes | Not supported in MythTV | Yes in some versions of ivtv | Dual TV tuners, single FM Radio tuner, no remote. | |
| Hauppauge PVR-350 | IVTV stable | Yes | Yes | Not supported in MythTV | Yes | Has TV-out and if the option to encode CC in MPEG datastream is enabled, PVR-350 TV output can also pass it back to the television CC decoder. Not recommended for new purchases, as mpeg decoding does not support advanced myth functions (like fast-forwarding) and future versions of myth will use OpenGL, which will not work on this card. | |
| Hauppauge PVR-250 | IVTV stable | Yes | Yes | Not supported in MythTV | Yes | ||
| Hauppauge PVR-150 | IVTV stable | Yes | Yes | Not supported in MythTV | Yes in some versions of ivtv | All versions have one TV tuner. Different versions exist, some with FM Radio tuner (but no remote), some with remote (but no radio). | |
| Hauppauge HVR-1600 | No Linux support | No | Yes | No | No | Does not work with MythTV or Linux yet because of the new Conexant CX23418 chip used to encode MPEG-2. The card has two tuners, one supports both ATSC (8-VSB) and Clear QAM up to 1080i resolution, the other does standard NTSC hardware encoding to MPEG-2. You can watch or record on both tuners at once. Hauppauge has stated that Linux support for the WinTV-HVR-1600 is in process, however the company themselves are not working on a driver. A message to Hauppauge support asking about the supposed "in process" driver resulted in the following response: "we don't produce Linux drivers only Win XP/Vista drivers. You will have to refer to the Linux community for that." Evidently, they are telling their customers that the Linux community "process" of getting pissed off with lack of vendor support and writing drivers without assistance will eventually produce something that works with their hardware. | |
| Hauppauge WinTV-Go | bttv | Yes | No | Yes | No | ||
| Hauppauge WinTV 38061 Rev B226 | bttv | Yes | No | ? | ? | Use btaudio for sound | |
| Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T PCI | bttv | MythTV version 0.18.1 or older | No | ? | ? | DVB-T, Digital Terrestrial | |
| Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T PCI | cx88-dvb | Yes | No | Yes | Yes (UK) | DVB-T, Digital Terrestrial | |
| Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T 500 PCI | Kernel >= 2.6.19 dvb-usb-dib0700 | Yes | No | Yes | Yes (UK) | DVB-T, Digital Terrestrial | [6] |
| Hauppauge WinTV Nova-S PCI | CX88-DVB Kernel >=2.6.15 | Yes | No | ? | ? | DVB-S, Digital Satellite | Unknown |
| Hauppage WinTV PVR (Roslyn) | kernel>=2.6.18 | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Should be supported with MythTV 0.20 | Unknown |
| Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2 | kernel>=2.6.18 or separate package | Yes | Yes | No | No | Looks like a PVR-x50/500 card to software | Srs5694 |
| K-World Xpert DTV - DVBT PCI | ? | Y | DVB-T, has aerial passthru | ||||
| Leadtek LR6650/ DTV1000 - DVBT PCI | cx88-dvb Kernel >=2.6.12 | Yes | DVB-T, has aerial passthru | ||||
| Leadtek DTV2000H - DVBT & Analog PCI | cx88-dvb Kernel | Yes | DVB-T, Analog. Seperate antenna connector for DVB-T and Analog | ||||
| Lifeview TV Walker Twin (USB) | m920x (linuxTV HG) | Partial | Dual DVB-T. Single antenna connector, works with gxine. To get card working setup VLC to Network Stream and use an IPTV tuner in MythTV. | ||||
| Matrox Rainbow Runner G-Series | mgavideo | Yes | Yes | No | No | Discontinued | |
| pcHDTV HD-3000 | kernel >= 2.6.12, cx8800, cx88-dvb, cx22702, or51132 | Yes | No | No | No | broadcast HDTV. | |
| pcHDTV HD-5500 | kernel >= 2.6.16, cx88-dvb | Yes | No | No | No | DIGITAL SDTV/HDTV in 8ESV, QAM64, QAM128, QAM256, and Analog NTSC | |
| Pinnacle PCTV HD | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ATSC, NTSC, Clear QAM, FM. Conexant CX23883-39 Chipset | |
| Pinnacle PCTV USB HDTV 452e | Partial (only DVB-S), multiproto API [7] with 452e Patch [8] | No (multiproto not yet supported) | No | ? | ? | see [9] for instructions to get the kernel drivers running | |
| Plextor ConvertX | wis-go7007-linux-0.9.7 | Yes | Yes | No | No | USB external device (MPEG4) | |
| Silicondust HDHomeRun | MythTV >= 0.20 | Yes | Yes | No | No | ATSC Digital TV, Dual tuners, TCP/IP network. Technically there is no hardware encoding however the device streams mpeg-2 directly from the ATSC broadcast --> no encoding requ'd. | |
| Technisat AirStar HD-5000 | kernel >= 2.6.x, dvb B2C2, LGDT330x | Yes | No | No | No | OTA and Clear QAM HDTV. | |
| Technotrend C-1500 | budget-ci | Some card revs | Newer cards with different tuner (antenna in and out) might not work under Linux | ||||
| Terratec Cinergy 400 | ? | Yes | No | ? | ? | ||
| Terratec Cinergy 600 | ? | Yes | No | ? | ? | ||
| Twinhan MiniTer DVT PCI | kernel >= 2.6.8 | No | No | ? | ? | DVB-T Australia. Provides MPEG2 stream from digital signal | |
| Geniatech Digistar | cx88xx | Yes | No | ? | No | This is the Conexant based card |
