On September 1993 plus 3563 days Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 04 Jun 2003 11:49 am, Steffen Barszus wrote: >> Am Mittwoch, 4. Juni 2003 12:14 schrieb Anne Wilson: >> That card is a digital TV card for terrestrial. Drivers can be >> found on www.linuxtv.org. This card is not supported out of the box >> and you can not use apps like xawtv or similar, as this is not a >> normal tv-card. I don't know how far the support for dvbin in >> mplayer is, i think that would be a good app to use this card, or >> if you have a dxr3 you can use the great vdr. >> >> There are two different sorts of digital tv cards. On one side the >> premium cards with an mpeg2-decoder onboard and as second the >> budget cards w/o such a decoder. The first one does provide v4l >> interface and a tv-out, vdr can be used out of the box with this. >> The second one needs software to decode the mpeg2 stream and does >> not provide a v4l interface. The dvbin patch for mplayer tries to >> be able to tune this card and decode the mpeg2 stream. There are >> other apps of course too. A problem may be to get a good >> channels.conf for your area. dvb-s (sat) is very wide spreaded, but >> dvb-t is in a lot areas very new. Further it depends on how many >> stations can be received digital in your area. >> >> I hope this helps you a bit. >> To make it short: with some efforts you will get great picture >> quality.But the nova is completly different to normal analog cards. >> > Thanks, Steffen. This obvioiusly need some thought
Unless you are planning on doing something with that video you are getting into your computer (ie. record, edit, export), you don't need a good video capture card...any bttv based 20 bucks card will let you watch TV in your computer without problems. I have a TreeView99 card here, and it worked great for over a year (I finally fell into temptation and got a real TV, so I'm not using the card anymore...tho it's still in the computer and worked last time I used it :) Vox -- Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_ technology than everyone else. -- Donald B. Marti Jr.
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