On Tue, 20 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, folks!
> I was wondering of there's any support for video capture boards in
> Linux.
Yes, I am using a TV tuner that uses the chip Brooktree bt848
> I'm looking at the Osprey 100 or the AverMedia EZCapture boards. Is there
> any support for these? Is there another (inexpensive!) board that is
> supported?
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I think that the AverMedia uses the bt848 chip so It will be recognized.
You will need a kernel driver called "video4linux" ,the bt848 drivers
and some program to view the video or capture it,
check the following url:
http://www.thp.uni-koeln.de/~rjkm/linux/bttv.html
hope it helps!
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