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AVerMedia DVB-T 771

Reviews	Views	Date of last review
1	28493	01-31-2006

Recommended By	Average Price	Average Rating
No recommendations	None indicated	4.0

Description:	AVerTV DVB-T 771 Digital TV Tuner. AVerTV DVB-T 771 is a digital terrestrial television receiver card that allows you to access free to air digital TV and radio signals using VHF/UHF antenna. It can be used to record and save TV programs directly to your PC's hard disk in original MPEG-2 format. http://www.avermedia.com/cgi-bin/pro...er_dvbt771.asp
Keywords:	DVB-T 771 AVerMedia
/sbin/lspci output:	0000:02:05.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11) 0000:02:05.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
Chipset:	BT878, MT352
Connection Type:	PCI

Author

01-31-2006, 12:23 PM

EECore

Registered: Jul 2005

Distribution: Debian, NetBSD

Posts: 9

Rep:

Would you recommend the product? no | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 4

Kernel (uname -r):	2.6.12-9-386
Distribution:	Ubuntu

The AverMedia DVB-T 771 is a card I would NOT recommend for anyone intent on setting up a MythTV box, or any other PVR. The card seems to perform reasonably under Microsoft Windows based operating systems, but poorly under Linux.

The card, firstly, lacks a hardware MPEG2 decoder. As a result of this full screen playback of a Live TV stream on even a 3.0GHz Pentium 4 slow and average picture quality.

The card also uses a 3.5mm Audio style jack for the remote control receiver, which is positioned on the back of the card. As a result of this, the connector was subsequently BROKEN off of the board when my desktop case was moved.

The device was deemed Linux Compatible by AverMedia on their product information web page, with a link to an almost useless guide on getting the card working under Linux.

The guide on the AverMedia website has since been updated and is now exceptionally helpfull.

I'm sorry to be blunt but I would not recommend this card to any Linux user.

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