Thanks to all who replied to this query. I ended up buying two Pinnacle PCTV Rave cards (one for home, one for office). These cost roughly $50 a piece and work nearly seamlessly under my debian installations (both kernel 2.4.24).
I compiled video4linux and the bttv driver into the kernels, plugged the TV cards in, and ran. The xawtv application took a little setting up (I had to add: [global] freqtab = us-cable-hrc to /etc/X11/xawtvrc to get it to work, but once it worked it's great. A little strange to see TV in a box on the desktop though! To record, I now use: streamer -t 0:15 -o cnn.avi -f mjpeg -F stereo to record 15 seconds of whatever channel is currently tuned in. Thanks again- ap ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
