John, I'm in the same predicament here with XP and 2 WinTV capture cards. I've installed the open source drivers, however I can't specify which Composite port to use and it doesn't come up with my 2nd capture card. What is the registry renaming?
On 6/21/06, John Hodrien <jo...@comp.leeds.ac.uk> wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Thomas D. Uram wrote: > > > Hi Natalia: > > > > I have used two WinTV cards under WinXP. With AG2, you have to use the > > VFW drivers. With AG 3.0.1, you should use WDM (the next release will > > support > > the use of either VFW or WDM). > > I've used the open source drivers happily with 3 cards under windows. The > normal registry renaming is required since all cards get the same name. > > http://btwincap.sourceforge.net/supportedcards.html > > > There's a long history of success using multiple WinTV cards in Linux, so > > that should not be any problem. > > Yep, no problems at all with 3 bt878 cards under Fedora. > > > I have not used the Pinnacle PCTV card; maybe someone else can comment > > there. > > We had Pinnacle Rave cards (or similar) with SAA7134 chipsets, and the drivers > didn't support more than one card under windows. Works fine under linux. > > jh > > -- > "You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists." > -- Anatole France > > -- Jeremy Mann jer...@biochem.uthscsa.edu University of Texas Health Science Center Bioinformatics Core Facility http://www.bioinformatics.uthscsa.edu Phone: (210) 567-2672
