Thanks Nick. It looks to be around the $100 mark, here: http://www.dse.co.nz/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/en/product/XH6594
They claim it may not work with GF2, GF3, and TNT based graphics cards. Aren't you using a Geforce card Nick? (I seem to remember seeing it in a post somewhere, but I could be wrong). I would appreciate it if you can confirm that this isn't an issue. ps. I see dragon (www.dragonpc.co.nz) have a "Lifeview FLYVIDEO 3000" card that looks to be a TV and FM tuner as well for $109. Has anyone experience with these? Cheers, Gareth On Tuesday 19 August 2003 14:32, Nick Rout wrote: > 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]
