On Sunday 12 Dec 2004 02:51, Dennis Myers wrote: > 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.
Cards with bt chips seem to be well supported, I had an old Gallent 550 tv card bought second hand from a pc fair. It almost worked straight away in mdk 9.0. I gave it to a mate as it was not powerfull enough to record good quality video. I foolishly braught this one on the 'spur'. Of course it came with verious versions of drvers for that other o/s, but when I emailed pinnicle they just said it was unsuported. I don't think it does the encoding on the card as i had to register for a free software upgrade to save files as mpg2.
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