[ale] tv capture card for linux?

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Wed Oct 16 14:31:10 EDT 2002


Cory T. Echols wrote:
> On 10/16, John Wells wrote:
> 
>>I'd like to keep up with SEC football while hacking.  Can anyone recommend
>>a good card for doing so?
> 
> 
> Back when I had cable I had a pretty good experience with a Hauppage
> card that was around $50.
> 
> Despite the fact that Hauppage lables their series of cards "WinTV",
> they are usually really well supported by the video4linux drivers.

This is true with the earlier Hauppage cards, but some of the later ones 
use an unsupported chipset.  There was a reference to this issue on the 
v4l list just this week.

I've got a wintv card that workes excellent but it has the earlier bt878 
card.

The big problem is that there's apparently no indication on the outside 
of the box that tells you the chipset used.

-- 
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?


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