ATSC TV tuner dongle?

[Grench]

I did some brief searching and found a few threads where people were talking about trying to get TV tuners working on a Pandora.  A few had some success with European versions - but nothing for the US ATSC encoding.

So - does anyone have a working USB ATSC (US) TV tuner dongle solution?

For this purpose it needs to be a USB powered dongle - not a network TV box.

 

[levi]

ATSC? What's that, Approximately The Same Colour (twice)?

Sorry, as I'd not heard of the standard (despite it's widespread use) before, I can't be of any help beyond providing a brief moment of levity.

 

[TrashyMG]

I've had some luck with the Pandora and my WinTV-HVR-1950.. although it's a bit larger than a dongle, although full HD videos tend to lag a bit.

http://boards.openpandora.org/topic/404-dvb-t-tv-on-pandora/page-2#entry132626/URL]

 

[Grench]

I've had some luck with the Pandora and my WinTV-HVR-1950.. although it's a bit larger than a dongle, although full HD videos tend to lag a bit.

http://boards.openpandora.org/topic/404-dvb-t-tv-on-pandora/page-2#entry132626/URL]

Unfortunately a stand alone box with it's own power requirements won't do it for an application I have in mind.  I need it to run off of the Pandora's USB power.

However - you may have put me onto something here.  Hauppauge also makes a product designed for  mobile devices:

http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_aero-m.html

And it looks like someone was able to get it to cooperate nicely with desktop Linux:

http://www.tvtechnology.com/distribution/0099/hauppauge-usb-receiver-tested-under-linux-/211617

And it isn't too badly overpriced:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?Q=&O=&A=details&is=REG&sku=783591

So...  will it work?  Any bets one way or the other?

 

[WizardStan]

Back when I used to do TV capture I would swear by Hauppauge. They don't have direct support for Linux but they do lend full support to anyone that wants to get their devices running on Linux, and as such have a fairly large collection of devices that work standard with Linux. You should be able to use most of those USB2.0 ATSC devices. You may need to compile the kernel module for it though, Notaz probably didn't compile everything in automatically.

 

[rygD]

So...  will it work?  Any bets one way or the other?

I would be interested in finding out.  I don't see it being too useful for me at present, but there was a time when this would have been a great solution for me.