recommendation for best tv video card?

[dan]

Can we have some model & make numbers for cards that *work* out of the
box? Even if the newer ones don't work there should be plenty of old
ones on ebay that do.

Dan

On 4/15/05, Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
> > > .... my bttv card which worked perfectly in all flavour of Mandrake,
> > > and Warty.... suddenly stopped working in Hoary... unable to fix
> > > it... no Hoary for me :-/
> >
> > Mine works fine under Hoary, so there's no reason in principle why
> > yours shouldn't.
> 
> Yes, I have already gathered (when I tried to fix it), that the problem
> only shows when using SECAM. I found only one other lister with the same
> card, using SECAM, and he has the same problems. Other people (USA etc)
> who don't use SECAM, appear not have any problem.
> 
> Actually the card "half works" in Hoary. The problem is that if you
> change channel from the TV app, the card will NOT change channel. What I
> have to do, each and everytime I want to change channel is :
> 
> 1) Set channel with the TV app, picture doesn't change, stays on current
> channel.
> 
> 2) Set TV norm to "PAL" (and get garbage, of course)
> 3) Set TV norm back to SECAM : the card's tuner suddenly dares to switch
> to the desired channel... at last.
> 4) Loop to 1) every time you want to change station... :-/
> 
> It does it regardless of what TV app I use (XawTV, Zapping...), but I
> don't know where the problem is, kernel seems to load the correct
> module, card and tuner type etc (well, it loads the same things as Warty
> does, anyway). So don't know what's wrong.
> 
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