The chipset was printed in the box. The box actually had two chipsets printed: the Philips SAA713x and the BT8something with the Philips marked as the chipset used in the card inside.
Since it is broadcast lang, I had MythTV set up to capture at 480x480 at 30fps (or 29.something). I have read up that NTSC signal can give you 480x480 max only compared to higher resolutions from DV cameras. I'm planning to use MythTV to capture the videos and convert it to MPEG4. So far, it's the best one I found that is in the Ubuntu repositories, though I can't seem to make it record for 2 hours straight when I'm just manually initiating a recording -- which is keeping me from digitizing my videos. For just watching tv, tvtime is ok. I also use kino when transfering videos from a miniDV camcorder using firewire. --- mike t. ----- Original Message ---- From: Taong Bahay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 5:55:46 PM Subject: Re: [plug] TV tuner suggestion (not BTTV) On 6/21/07, Michael Tinsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I recently bought an Items-brand unit from a store in Park Square 1. It's > using the Philips SAA7130 chipset which is supported in Linux. I got it to > work after several config tries. MythTV, xawtv, and tvtime works on it. > I'm using KUbuntu Fesity Fawn. Is the type of chip printed on box or did you find this out after booting linux? How many frames per second can you record at 640x480 resolution? Can you record a TV broadcast (not cable)? > I'm planning to use it to digitize my video8 collections. What program will you use? Thnx _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
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