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.
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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