I sold a life view card recently to a guy for his linux box. It worked but wasn't the 3000 model. One of the lifeviews have the ?BT838? chip in it which is the hackable one. Pine also do a couple of PCI ones which might fit the smaller cases. Cheap too.
There are a couple of life view boxes which work ok. I have a friend who got the VGA to Pal box. It works excellently for him. Gives you a pal out and also an extra VGA so you can have monitor and tv going at the same time. I've taken the liberty of adding in some prices. If you are doing analog video capture ( ie non digital) then a special capture card or external box is the way to go. The stock codes are all Dove codes so you can see more details on their site. Ascent is a great supply for these things or I would be happy enough to purchase on behalf from Dove. Maybe someone can get better prices from else where but this is a good starting guide. I don't normally sell hardware except as part of a larger job but am happy to helpin the cause of extending Linux functionality. HTH Shane On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 02:57, you wrote: > 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] -- Shane Hollis Notes Unlimited New Zealand Ph: 021 465 547 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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