HCL/TV Cards

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Hardware Compatibility List (HCL)
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PCI

Vendor Model Autodetected SUSE Release Comments
10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3
Asus TV-FM 7134 Chipset SAA7134 from Philips Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Works like a charm. Same in 10.3
ATI TV Wonder Pro - "Chipset CX23880 from Conexant" Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Even dough the card is recognize by the installation setting it up is quite a small challenge (just trying to figure out the encoding) but after the card is configuration is done it works like a charm.
ATI TV Wonder Pro - Chipset CX2388X Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Works but video distorted (cable TV)
Avermedia M179 - Chipset IVTV Image:22px-Tick.png Was not autodetected under Suse 10.0.
Brooktree Brooktree - Chipset Bt878 (PCB95106) Image:22px-Tick.png Was not autodetected under Suse 10.0. TVCard-ExpertSetting - (bt848/878) : card=13 tuner=2
Conexant IO Data GV/BCTV7E - Chipset cx2388x Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png
Hauppauge WinTV Pro - Chipset bt878 Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Detection is done. Configuration is not done. (I can't get it to work)
Hauppauge Win-TV Circa 1995 - Chipset bt878 Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Just auto scan for channels and away you go!
Hauppauge Win-TV PVR350 Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Scan for TV-Channels does not work from Yast, neither to watch TV via kdetv. But with the right scripts its working fine
Hauppauge WinTV 44004 rev-C 108 - Chipset Conexant Fusion 878A Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Detection & manual edit of config with YaST (incl autoscan of channels). After configuring, tvcard worked immediately with application "tvtime". kdetv (SuSE-10.0), mythtv and other applications worked after additional configuration steps (An unexpected kmixer setting on 10.0 caused me some hickups. 10.3 did not have those problems). YaST is using bttv driver.
Hauppauge WinTV-PVR MCE-150 - Chipset bt878 Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png I got the card installed and configured, but I could not find a good tv-program yet. Installation and configuration should be done by installing the right version of ivtv. YaST installed wrong version on my system.
Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-S-Plus MCE - model 794 Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Works fine with OpenSuse 10.3
Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-T PCI Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Works fine with OpenSuse 10.3
Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-T 500 MCE - chipset DIB0700 Image:22px-Tick.png Works with suse but requires the installation of DVB/V4L. This card is similarly named to other Hauppauge cards, which may cause confusion.
Hauppauge HVR-1110 - chipset SAA7131E-TDA10046A Image:22px-Tick.png Works with opensuse 10.2 and lower but requires the installation of DVB/V4L and card's firmware dvb-fe-tda10046.fw in /lib/firmware. This card is sometimes sold as the older HVR-1100 which works out the box (included in yast). Sound is sent through the pci bus and with analog tv applications like kdetv/xdtv/tvtime must be piped to /dev/dsp using sox. See Hauppauge HVR-1110 TV-DVB card
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1300, hybrid It is detected in 10.3, but the analog tuner does not work, requires a code hack in kernel sources (bugzilla #328771). Digital part works ok. Both Analog and digital tv use a lot of cpu, no overlay mode. No analog sound. Requires firmware, either from manufacturer CD (dvd/DriverA2: HcwFalcn.rom = v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw and HcwMakoC.ROM = v4l-cx25840.fw) or package ivtv-firmware from non-oss repo). See 1110 above.
Hercules Smart TV Stereo Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Needs option card=100 for module bttv. On 10.3 needs manual "modprobe bttv".
Leadtek TV2000 XP Global - Chipset cx2388xx Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png "not working". V4L provided with 2.6.18.8 kernel does not recognizes it. It will be supported with newer kernels.
Leadtek WinFast TV 2000 XP (Deluxe) - bttv, bt878 Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png All works fine after native installations in version 10.0, 10.1, 10.2. I must only setup channel in tv application. (This I must check "Chipset Fusion 878A"). I use PAL.
Leadtek WinFast TV 2000 XP Expert

(Conexant CX23880)

Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image is perfect (PAL) with Kdetv, but i hear nothing (S.B. Audigy2 ZS Platinum)
Lifewiew FlyDVB Trio

(Philips SAA7134)

Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Remote does'nt work|
LightWave SkyView 2 TV Digital Satellite Receiver

(Philips SAA7134)

Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png DiSEqC does'nt work,Trying to get IRC to work!|
Nebula DigiTV PCI - Chipset bt878 Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Nebula Electronics Ltd.
Philips Semiconductor (KRTV-7131) SAA7133 Video Broadcast Decoder - Chipset SAA7131 Image:22px-Tick.png Was not autodetected under Suse 10.0. dmsg=saa7133[0]:subsystem:1131:0000 i couldn't resolve
Pinnacle PCTV 300i DVB-T + PAL - Chipset saa7134_dvb Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png
Pinnacle PCTV 40i and 50i - Chipset saa7134 Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Was Not autodetected under 10.0, works if configured in Yast as PCTV 100. Works out of the box under 10.1
Pinnacle PCTV Stereo - Chipset saa7134 Image:22px-Tick.png
Pinnacle PCTV Studio Rave - Chipset bttv Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png
Pixelview PlayTVPro Ultra - Chipset Conexant CX23882 Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Options cx88xx card=27 tuner=38 i2c_scan=1
If image b&w, set hue to max
Terratec Cinergy 1200 DVB-S - Chipset SAA-7146 Image:22px-Tick.png Was not autodetected under Suse 10.0. Download libxine from pacman... then it should work with kaffeine
Technotrend TT-C2300 DVB-C - Chipset SAA-7146 Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png To get anolog sound output working you need to recompile the latest dvd modules
Technisat SkyStar 2 TV DVB-S - Chipset B2C2 FlexCopII Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Works great with VDR. Be aware that this card might physically damage motherboards with nforce 4 chipset.
Kozumi KTV-01C - Chipset Conexant Bt 878 Image:22px-Tick.png Yast autodetection is wrong. You need to select Sabrent TV-FM and it works perfect.

NOTE (for Argentina users only): Use norm PAL-NC and scan with frequency us-cable.

pcHDTV hd-5500 - Chipset Unknown Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Vendor claims support for Linux. Vendor has no customer service phone number, only an email is provided. I emailed them about a week ago with a question and they still haven't responded. In contrast, the card was shipped on the next day after I purchased it.


The vendor has a message board on which users post their problems, however I found it not very useful since many of the questions users posted remained unanswered.

Vendor claims that support in the form of software and drivers are provided. Drivers come with the kernel and they work. As far as software goes, a modified version of xine can be downloaded from the website of pcHDTV. The quality of the image is not great at all because there is some aliasing. In addition xine doesn't seem very responsive on an Athlon X2 4200 system.

I found the channel scanning utility abysmal and hard to use. Its name is dtvscan and it is a text-based utility. If dtvscan is unable to find any channels, it saves a channel configuration file of size 0Kb. The blank file causes xine to crash when it is started without really informing the user of why it is crashing. Also, dtvscan didn't find a third of the channels which mythtv was able to find.Prior to running an automatic update, dtvscan kept on giving me segmentation fault errors.

Unlike the vendor-supplied software, mythtv works perfectly with this card. It was able to find quite a few channels in my area and the image quality is good.

The card works on OpenSuse 10.3. It is recognized automatically. There is both image and sound. The image quality is good.

Note: you still have to go through Yast and configure the card after you install it.

USB

Vendor Model Autodetected SUSE Release Comments
10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3
AVerMedia AVerTV DVB-T USB 2.0 Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png USB 2.0 required, Firmware (dvb-usb-avertv-a800-02.fw) required in /lib/firmware
Hauppauge PVR USB2 Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png(1) Image:22px-Tick.png(1) Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png (1)Was not autodetected under Suse 10.0, 10.1 (require 10.2+ for autodetection). OpenSource-Drivers and firmware extraction/load instructions at isely.net. Unit is easily configured via sysfs.
Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-T Stick - 70009 series (new series, old was 70001) Image:22px-Tick.png card is recognized with v4l recompiled drivers, and the firmware for the 70001 model can be used in /lib/firmware. I use kaffeine as a reader, and linuxtv.org is a valuable resource. USB 2.0 required as well. I am using a 2.6.21.3 kernel version, but do not know if that is necessary (it recompiled the kernel BEFORE I started investigating the TV issue)
Terratec Cinergy T² Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png USB 2.0 required
Yakumo Yakumo QuickStick DVB-T Image:22px-Tick.png Was not autodetected under Suse 10.0. Modprobe dvb-usb-dtt200u


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