"hop-hog" cards are the best, like the early lucent wifi cards. Partly branding, but also simply a good product.
Bob, you might be interested in the offerings of http://www.linuxmedialabs.com/ In case you have multiple tuners or external sources, they make some reasonably-priced 4-input cards too ( = I think tldp/linuxdoc has a good rundown in their hardware howto or other docs, which list a number of compatible cards. Also, various particular software (like mythtv, which spearheaded the development of support for the wintv pvr-250 and -350 models under linux AFAIK) will list supported hardware of course. For the record, I've been using a program called "xawdecode" (or xawdecode2) which is much better than xawtv, but very similar of course. Anyone else making modern use of Athena Widgets out there ?? = ) regards all, Ben If you're not looking for a tuner but just video-in, you have a lot more options availabel to you, as numerous video cards now have that capability and might already be supported. I know the ATI AIW (all in wonder) series has had support for linux for a long time now, although I have yet to get my hands on one of those. I hear really good things about their RF remote! Some new nvidia cards have video in as well, now... On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 08:00:15 -0800 Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I would like to start playing around with a TV input card for Linux. | I'm having trouble finding concrete information on cards that work | well, so I'm asking here. What TV input cards are you using, and | where did you get them? | | Since we don't have any TV reception here, the source will have to be | a DIRECTV receiver. That means that I'd rather use composite video or | S-video inputs than RF/coax. Do TV cards have those inputs? If so, | do I use the audio in on the sound card, or do they have audio in too? | _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
