I am reasonably sure it is a DSE XH6594, it is a rebadged avermedia, with avermedia drivers for windows in the box.
It is bttv based, which is supported in the linux kernel, on my box you load the module: modprobe bttv card=13, autoload=0 [1] there is a long pause, which could probably be prevented by changing some of the module parameters. /dev/video0 is then created automagically and you can watch with xawtv, or many other packages. You need to set to composite1, rather than tv, and and norm =pal rather than ntsc. For some reason (don't know if its because the bttv driver expects one, or the card wrongly says it has one) the software usually seems to default to tv and think that channel changing does something. the kernel also seems to detedt a vbi (teletext) interface, but thats untrue too. [1] of course you automate this in modules.conf or whatever, but you knew this! On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 12:18:20 +1200 Gareth Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Rout wrote: > > the capture card is the cheapie from > > DSE, it has no tuner, just captures the composite video output from my > > sky box. > > Which card, and how cheap? :) > I've been considering getting a TV card for some time. But this would be just > as good - it just takes standard A/V input? ie. if I want to watch TV on it I > could just plug it into an old VCR and use the tuner on that. > If it's cheap, and Nick reports it to work with linux, I'm all for it :) > > Cheers, > Gareth > > ps. this MythTV sounds really cool. I shall have to google around for their > website and take a look. > -- Nick Rout Barrister & Solicitor Christchurch, NZ Ph +64 3 3798966 Fax + 64 3 3798853 http://www.rout.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
