Re: [newbie] TV tuner cards (was: Pinnacle PC TV Stereo Question
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. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] TV tuner cards (was: Pinnacle PC TV Stereo Question
On Saturday 11 December 2004 09:21 pm, Philippe Landau wrote: 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 ? Isn't this dependent on which video card you have, not the TV card? -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] TV tuner cards (was: Pinnacle PC TV Stereo Question
On Sunday 12 December 2004 08:40 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 11 December 2004 09:21 pm, Philippe Landau wrote: 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 ? Isn't this dependent on which video card you have, not the TV card? encoding to mpg 4 can be done in the TV card chip with the more 'high end' (wintvPVR250, 350) cards and uses almost no cpu, other than for (almost continual) disk writes, but it requres a recompile of the kernel to get the modules loaded,,, consider this cards to be 'non-trivial' install and setup... -- linux counter #167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] TV tuner cards (was: Pinnacle PC TV Stereo Question
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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
