On Saturday 11 December 2004 08:21 pm, Philippe Landau wrote: > >> Any advice on compatible cards? > > > > Leadtek wintv cards seem to work well. > > Hauppauge WinTV or Leadtek WinFast ? > it would be great if everybody with a tv card > made a few updates on > Wiki > Main > HardwareCompatibility > TvTuners: > http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/TvTuners > > currently i find it difficult to buy one, > as the ads are rosy and the fullscreen picture quality often bad ? > also how much cpu does realtime encoding to mpeg4 need ? > does someone use a card doing this in the chip ? > are the external usb2 cards better ? > > why does the Mandrakelinux Hardware Database > contain no TV cards at all ? > http://linux-mandrake.com/en/hardware.php3 > > kind regards philippe > > -- > > see also: > Video Hardware Issues and Compatibility > http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/VideoHI OOPs, your right Leadtek WinFast TV card. It uses the bt878 with a bttv module. also shows as other multimedia devices with: Pinnacle PCTV Sat DVB PCI (based on the Bt878 PCI bridge). Don't know if that helps anyone, but there it is. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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