That card does work. I can watch TV through XawTV or Zapping, but I couldn't get XawTV's captureing to work properly. Plus it doesn't seem to have very many formats to save to (like DivX).
Jesse Quoting Ilija Stankovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The WinTV Go card should work fine under your version of Mandrake. The > standard for capturing or TV tuning applications is is more or less > XawTV ( www.bytesex.org). On this site you may find a lot of useful > information on TV Tuner cards and capture devices. It should be trivial > to set up. Kernel recompile or at least a module build may be required... > > Jesse Kline wrote: > > I have been trying to get video capture working on my box for a long > > time now. I think I have tried just about every capture program on > > freshmeat. However everything I try either won't install, won't work, or > > won't work properly. All I want to do is capture some episodes that I > > have on VHS, edit out the ads and save it as a compressed mpeg or divx, > > and I would prefer an app with a nice GUI, because I am new to the video > > world and I find it hard working with command line switches that I don't > > understand. Does such an app exist for Linux? Does anyone have any > > experience with video capture? > > > > BTW I'm using Mandrake 9.0 with a Hauppage WinTV GO card. Maybe it's > > just my card, should I get a better one? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jesse > > > > > > >
