G'day,

I am thinking of purchasing an Hauppauge WINTV401 PCI Interface TV/FM Tuner Card - Retail (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16815116606) for use with MythTV. I hear this card works great under Linux and also the remote works great after u load this module, along with the FM tuner. Anyhow, I have a pretty bad ass fast system I want to turn into an HTPC BUT it only has some shit onboard graphics and it lacks AGP/PCI Express since its a server board. To control it I plan on SSH or VNCing into the system over the LAN. However, this onboard graphics suck and it has no TV out or anything. I'm wondering if its possible to use the coaxial TV out on the hauppauge TV tuner to hook it up to a regular TV and then to view the mythTV on there. Are these tv tuners with coaxial TV out and TV in just for a pass through? Or can you view the video feed from the computer on a TV if you tune the tv to like channel 3/4 or something similar to a standard VCR? Basically im wondering if i can use mythTV with its remote and all that shit on a regular TV using the coaxial out on the TV tuner instead of hooking it up via VGA out on the monitor to the TV as the onboard graphics suck? So does everybody understand and have any input if it would work? Thanks, tv tuners aren't my speciality and i havent tocuhed a haupoauge in years.

Where do you see a coaxial tv out on this? I see one coaxial in for tv and one for FM radio.

If all you need is tv-out you can find a converter from VGA (http://microcenter.com/single_produc...uct_id=0160981) for your on-board graphics, or just look for a deal on an old NVIDIA GeForce 2 or 4 PCI with an S-Video Out port. From what I understand about mythtv, anything higher end is overkill since it only improves the 3d support, but NVIDIA cards do take a large load off of your processor for watching videos if you install the accelerated drivers

damn didnt know the second one was for radio LMAO..... ok nm