yes, any wintv pci card should work great, as long as the card supports PAL the software will too, the brooktree drivers (BTTV84X chips) work fine in my mandrake setup, and have in every version since 7.0, right out of the box.
On Wednesday 13 March 2002 12:10, you wrote: > System: Mandrake 8.0 running on a Gigabyte GA-71XE4 mobo, Athlon 1.2GHz, > 256MB ram and a 20Gb HDD. Very stable atm :) > > I would like to know if there is a PCI card that would enable me to view > terestrial television broadcasts like bbc1, bbc2, bbc4, bbc knowledge, > itv1, itv2, channel 4 and channel 5 using the signal from my ariel? > > I'm not interested in satellite or pay-to-view channels, but just the > standard channels and the free digital-via-ariel channels. > > It would be great to use the linux box rather than buying a whole new > television or buying a set-top-box for my old television, allowing me to > view true widescreen output on a crisp monitor display. > > Do such cards also offer the possibility to capture programs onto the > harddrive allowing for saving or just viewing later [digital VCR > effectively]? > > Teletext would be a bonus, but not essential ;-) > > Hope you can help me with this question :) > > magnet
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