I've got one of those TView cards, all the cheap cards on the market use the brooktree (BT) chipset, there are linux drivers, but I don't think anyone is actively maintaining them any more, I've had good and bad experience with video capture under windows, it used to work fine but for some odd reason started to get flakey and drop frames all the time :-(...
I'd seriously consider the nvidia cards if I wanted to get another capture card. JeremyB. > From: Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2002/03/01 Fri AM 09:05:57 GMT+12:00 > To: nzlug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > CLUG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: TV cards/capture cards & linux & nvidia > > Looking to buy a video capture card, maybe with a tv tuner (but as I get > all my tv thru sky digi it seems a little pointless to get the latter). > > Been looking at the DSE site. The options appear to be: > > DSE PCI card part xh6594 $97.00. > > according to the instructions this is an avermedia ezcapture card which > seems to be supported under linux. It is a bt848 or bt 878 chip. > > TView TV Tuner Capture Card part XH6591$107. > > Not sure if this is supported under linux? It has a tuner as well as > capture. > > From there onwards they get more expensive. What worries me a little is > this warning on _all_ the dse advertised cards: > > "Please Note: nVidia chipset based video cards such as GeForce 2, GeForce 3 > and TNT do not support overlay mode which is used extensively by this > card . As a result of this issue, Dick Smith Electronics do not > recommend using this card with an nVidia chipset based video card." > > I saw a thread on nz.comp recently suggesting that this was crap. > > So really i am looking fo recommendations & war stories about any of > these cards with nvidia and/or linux. As it'll go in a dual booter, I > guess winblows stories will be relevant too (to me anyway :-) > > > > > > >http://www.dse.co.nz/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/3c7e93a607901b44273fc0a87f990722/Product/View/XH6594 > -- > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Solicitor, PO Box 25-275, > Christchurch, NZ > ph +64-3-3798966 > fax +64-3-3798853 > http://www.rout.co.nz > >
