[Intel-gfx] Hauppauge WinTV HVR-900HD support?

Zhenyu Wang zhenyuw at linux.intel.com
Thu Aug 6 11:29:51 CEST 2009


On 2009.08.06 09:01:40 +0100, Kaya Saman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> in an earlier post I was responded to that my old WinTV USB 1 Tuner 
> would never work under Linux due to bad and complicated coding which 
> (since no one uses that tuner anymore) will never be looked at.
> 
> So I am in need of a new tuner!
> 
> This is a dilemma as I need analog TV.... since I will be using it for 
> watching stuff through a satellite receiver but also analog terrestrial 
> TV too as where I will be taking it to doesn't have digital TV at best 
> the have cable.
> 
> I was considering going for the Hauppauge WinTV HVR-900HD. I am not sure 
> if it will be compatible though with the global regions I will use it in 
> which is UK that I know it has support for as I will buy from here which 
> is PAL I but then also Turkey which I think is PAL Beta if I'm not 
> mistaken??
> 
> More importantly though is it supported under Linux?? I use KUbuntu 9.04 
> which is pretty up to date. I am just a bit worried about this part 
> since the site says that as of June 2008 there is no support... of 
> course we are in August 2009 so maybe in a year it might have been 
> integrated into the later kernels??
> Taken from here: 
> http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-900H
> 
> What's everyone's verdict? Any suggestions would be great!
> 

You should ask v4l people for TV tuner, ask linux-media at vger.kernel.org

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