For Hauppauge and other BT8x8 (BrookTree, which is now Conexant?) chipset cards, which are well-supported, actual features vary. I think the 848 chipsets are full video in and out with tv tuner; the 878 work with a secondary sound chip, which often has an FM audio tuner. It works well, although it can be a little noisy when switching channels... but that might just be the software. (I'm not sure about the 848/849 and 878/879 differences off-hand, either)
I'd read that Hauppauge's PVR cards, which do mpeg-2 encoding in hardware, had some limitation, possibly that they *only* output the mpeg2 stream, as opposed to writing the video itself through the pci bus. I want to find out more about this one; the PVR-250 cards are getting a good bit cheaper now. Bob, I think your needs might have been well-covered already, but if I may digress and over-extend the thread: An old school-buddy had told me how he got satellite tv on linux going; it was well-enough developed set of tools, using some older hardware. I'm not sure what cards handle that, but there's even an HDTV tuner pci card out there, which is possibly the cheapest way to get HDTV. Links: http://www.metzlerbros.org/bttv.html http://www.exploits.org/v4l/ http://www.thedirks.org/v4l2/ http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/other.html#AEN13502 ..and of course, some "Hot links": http://www.surpluscomputers.com/crd_Aitechtvpci.html $15 - I have no idea if this is supported; please send info. http://www.pcmicrostore.com/PartDetail.aspx?q=b:1482;c:36210;p:10501229 $30 "house brand" but uses 878A, with FM tuner http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10352390&dcaid=1688 $70 AverMedia card with FM tuner, remote (methinks supported) http://store.yahoo.com/software-blowouts/hawiditvtuca.html $170 Hauppauge Digital tuner. I think this does sat? sweet! http://www.axiontech.com/prdt.php?src=PW&item=18055 $90 Hauppauge 848-based editing board (no tuner), 3 firewire ports http://www.pcnation.com/web/details.asp?affid=303&item=695014 $70 Hauppauge Theater edition, w/ Dolby Pro surround, remote http://www.softwareandstuff.com/card_cinpro.html $5 ISA card ( = http://www.axiontech.com/prdt.php?src=PW&item=47539 $139 Hauppauge PVR-250 http://www.axiontech.com/prdt.php?src=PW&item=18058 $311 Hauppauge HDTV , dolby, remote ymmv, I've not shopped many of these sites but prices and links are for comparison and reference, ymmv cheers y'all Ben 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
