I just purchsed a few of these which seem to work fine. the hauppauge ImpaceVCB board
I purchased the one with a single composite input and 3 RCA video inputs. There are a few models and they are all "dual crystal" supporting ntsc and pal. some of the tech specs on the chip: The ImpactVCB board provides image capture from a desk top CCD camera or other analog input. Impact VCB board is a small 1/3 height PCI board based on the Conexant 878A video digitizer chip. It requires a bus-master PCI slot. http://www.hauppauge.com/Pages/products/data_impactvcb.html --Russ Wolf, Boston University Douglas Kosovic wrote: > Hi Porfirio > >> I have problems to find capture cards based on 878 chipset. I've >> tried to >> find Hauppage WinTV and Pinnacle PCTV Pro without successful. >> >> I have a machine with 3 PCI 64 bit/66 MHz (PCI-X slots) and 2 PCI 32 >> bit/33 MHz (PCI Slots). >> >> I have read about some Osprey 100 capture card, but in the same case, I >> think that is discontinued. >> >> Do you have a suggerence? > > > A standard Pinnacle PCTV will suffice, no need for the Pro version, > unfortunately, it might be discontinued as well. > > The BT878 based ProLINK PixelView PlayTV pro is still around, see: > http://www.prolink-usa.com/english/product/mmpak/ppro.htm > > There are probably others still around. > >> I'm installing Fedora Core 3 in our Video PC. I think that in this PC >> isn't necessary have audio card. The audio card will be managed by our >> Audio PC and our Control PC (with the Gentner). > > > It's probably most convenient to run rat on the same PC as the one > running the VenueClient. > > > Doug
