Comments on: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-950 – Does It Work In Linux?

By: iphone ringtone maker

iphone ringtone maker — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:27:12 +0000

you can said it again ,truth is you deal it well.

By: Anti-CMOS

Anti-CMOS — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:05:16 +0000

Been running this tuner for awhile on Slamd64 and MythTV, I do not use the “sox” app discussed here. However this card gives me no issue as far as sound goes, everything is in sync fine. However if I try to use the card to tune in any cable channels it just wont do it. Best bet is to use this thing only for over-the-air TV and you shouldnt have any issues.

By: senses3

senses3 — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:00:40 +0000

if you run it like this:
tvtime | sox -r 48000 -c 2 -t ossdsp /dev/dsp2 -t ossdsp /dev/dsp

you wont get a sound delay

By: Gavin Engel

Gavin Engel — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:19:58 +0000

Hi there,

Is there a single USB TV-Tuner that you recommend for Linux servers?

I have checked out MythTV and V4L wikis, but they dont recommend a single best of breed.

thanks

By: davez0r

davez0r — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:10:16 +0000

I picked up the same card and also followed Luna6's instructions to make it work in Myth. Mine works great, although I did go through 3 computers and 3 distros. HD seems to need a fairly decent machine- I tried a 2.0 Ghz Athlon XP as well as a 2.8 Ghz Pentium 4 with a GeForce 4 MX. It didn't quite cut it for displaying TV, maybe my video card just sucks. Finally I rebuilt an Athlon 64 3000+ (2Ghz) with a GeForce FX 5200 and it plays it back flawlessly. I don't even get the audio delay Wayne described. As for the distros, I tried KnoppMyth and Mythbuntu, but MythDora actually gave me the easiest time configuring the card. Follow Luna's Fedora Core 6 instructions and you can have it up in a few minutes. Make sure to put up an antenna and test it out first with an old TV if possible. The channel scan will fail if you don't have a somewhat decent signal.

By: Brandon Peterman

Brandon Peterman — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 23:19:07 +0000

I bought this tuner over the summer (on eBay) and my results have been mixed at best. The sounds didn’t work at all on the Feisty kernel, and audio is unreliable at best on Gutsy. Sometimes the delay is almost imperceptible with the sox command, and other times it’s unbearable.

This dongle sounds interesting, though. I didn’t get one from my reseller. I ought to look into it.

By: William Deans

William Deans — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:35:23 +0000

The last posting was garbled but should have read:

Greetings,

Based on your posting I have reached a different conclusion about using this device under Linux for viewing TV and/or movies. While you seem to think that the audio delay is not tolerable I would ask why you don’t simply increase the video delay to match? Then both audio and video would be totally in sync for a perfect viewing experience. I don’t know much about Myth TV but I know mplayer even lets you do things like set delay on a speaker by speaker basis in case your front speakers are “faster” than your rear speakers, etc.

Hope this helps,
William Deans

By: William Deans

William Deans — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:33:27 +0000

Greetings,

Sounds to me like this device would work well under Linux to view TV or movies. Simply add in a delay to the video output to match the audio delay. Greetings,

Hope this helps,
William Deans

By: PredatoryFern

PredatoryFern — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:08:45 +0000

Yeah, I’m one of the ones who bought this thing for full price. (I’m a Canadian so no black fridays for me and my wife wanted to watch TV) I’ve been kind of looking for a linux solution and figured this was the best bet for HD/analogue. It works decently under Windows so far, but we’re still looking for a better antenna… =/