On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 06:43:48PM +0530, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: > I have tried many TV tuner cards available in the market. Most of them > are supported only on Windows.
Some of them do not mention Linux though they do work. The manufacturer may be either unaware or ignorant though somebody may have made the card work already. "bttv" is one such project and the supported card list should be searchable. > If you know any TV tuner card or any other grabber card that can work > on Linux, please let me know the model/make/manufacturer/price ( and > if possible, where it will be available) I have been using "Pixelview PlayTV Pro 2" for several years (Since RH9 days; it may be outdated by now) without any problem. It has got FM radio and A/V and RF inputs plus remote. (I didn't try getting the remote work as yet, though.) However, look for those with hardware mpeg encoding preferably so that for audio you do not have to use PC's line in or microphone separately. > If you have any other suggestions for this exercise, do send them to me.. If your camcorder has a/v out you don't necessarily need a TV tuner. Some of the video cards come with a/v in as well as out. That is useful if you want bidirectional use such as playing a movie on TV. For streaming there are devices like "Pinnacle PCTV To Go HD Wireless" (OEM "Monsoon Multimedia Hava Wireless HD") that stream directly over your wifi/ethernet network. It appeared a good product though way too costly if one is ok with a PC doing the job with the help of appropriate cards. Mayuresh. _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
