recommendation for best tv video card?

[William F Pearson III]

Thanks Bob for that info. I'll have to get one of those soon. I've yet
to have anyone I know try one out and for $170 USD I didn't really
want to be a guinea pig. The ATI HD wonder looked nice, but ATI has
been slow in releasing any supporting documentation or drivers for
linux in the past so I don't expect them to do it for that card.

On 4/15/05, Bob Nielsen <nielsen at oz.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 08:55:30PM -0500, William F Pearson III wrote:
> > I'll have to agree that the Wintv Cards are good I had the Wintv DBX,
> > that's the stereo version. The PVR cards are a little more tricky to
> > get working with linux and they record with mpeg2. If you're big on
> > open standards mpeg2 probably isn't going to appeal to you. ATI has a
> > new HDTV Wonder card out that isn't supported in Linux, no kernel
> > modules available last time I checked. In fact most of the terrestrial
> > HDTV cards aren't, otherwise I would snatch one up immediately. If you
> > are thinking of ever trying an HDTV card and live in the United
> > States, you need to finde one before this July to avoid the dreaded
> > broadcast flag that will prevent you from recording some shows.
> 
> I have the HD-3000 card <http://pchdtv.com>, which I understand will no
> longer be available after July 1.  The supplied software is far from
> perfect, but the 2.6.12 kernel will include suitable driver modules
> (2.6.12-rc2 does now).
> 
> There is a hacked HD version of xine supplied which partially works for
> me.  For digital non-HD broadcasts it works fine, although I have to
> start it from a command line or script, as the control panel won't do
> everything which is needed.  A HD program will create a window much
> larger than the screen size and when I resize it to fit I end up with a
> large pink area the right edge of the picture.  It's a step in the right
> direction.
> 
> This card works with xawtv, motv and tvtime for NTSC, but they each have
> their own issues.
> 
> Bob
> 
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