FYI, I just picked up a WinTV card for $50 the day before yesterday from Fry's. I'm running the 2.6.0-test7 kernel. I modprobe'd the tuner, bttv, and i2c_via (I have a VIA chipset mainboard), then fired up xawtv, and I was up and running. I've got my mission videos ripping straight to DivX/MP3 streams in realtime for burning onto DVD-R's. mencoder is amazing. :-)
I can't speak for the Radeon cards. The Matrox g450 and g550 have drivers that can get framebuffer NTSC out. I've gotten marginal quality back in the day (the colors were a bit washed out), but now they are claiming that the quality is much improved. If you're into playing and capturing NTSC signals, a Matrox g450 and WinTV card may be the way to go. But if you want decent 3D acceleration, stick with the Radeon. Mike On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 01:29:38PM -0600, Steve Dibb wrote: > Does anyone out there have an ATI All In Wonder card that successfully > lets you watch TV in Linux? I've got an AIW Radeon 7500 that I can't get > it to be seen as a TV card at all. I've tried everything I could > think of, but never got it to work. It's just one of the few reasons > for not switching over to Linux as my primary desktop still. > > But, I wouldn't mind buying a new video card, if I need to - I figure > the newer ones might work okay under Linux, like the Radeon 9000, but I > watned to see if anyone else has gotten it to work. > > Thanks > > Steve > > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies -- .___________________________________________________________________. Michael A. Halcrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Security Software Engineer, IBM Linux Technology Center GnuPG Fingerprint: 05B5 08A8 713A 64C1 D35D 2371 2D3C FDDA 3EB6 601D Don't buy what you can't pay for. But when it comes to software, don't pay for what you can't buy.
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