[leglug-users] TV Tuner

[Alaa Salman]

Thanks guys for everybody who answered.
I've subscribed to the Video4Linux and other projects and it seems 
they're quite active, and almost any card can work.

I've read the "Hauppauge" term several times so i think they're a safe 
bet(plus they seem to be moderately priced). I'm just hesitant regarding 
their MCE series which as i understand it is meant to work under windows 
media center or something like that.

I had previously read about the support for LeadTek and KWorld based 
cards but the problem is that some of these projects' wikis go 
un-maintained(even though the wiki is meant to solve that) so they are 
usually talking about obsolete chipsets.

I have an ATI-All in Wonder(8 years old) an another machine but the 
gatos project that supposedly has support for this confused the hell out 
of me and i was never able to make it work.

Anyway, thanks.

Regards,
Alaa Salman


Edmond Abrahamian wrote:
> On Wed, February 7, 2007 5:08 am, Alaa Salman said:
>> Hello guys,
>> Am i missing something? Where did everybody go?
>>
>> I have a question regarding personal experiences with TV Tuner cards. I
>> am looking at getting something that is Linux-Friendly(i also don't mind
>> a little tinkering).
>>
>> Anybody has any suggestions/experiences?
> 
> Any card will do. They generally have a standard programmable interface.
> One good application that can drive them is tvtime. It works
> fine with a plain vanilla (2.6 but not 2.4) kernel.
> 
> I have a tv tuner card from pinnacle. Ironically, tvtime is so much
> better than the software pinnacle wrote (which is terrible) that I use
> tvtime exclusively now. If you're using it with win xp, I'd stay away
> from pinnacle cards.
> 
> Regards,
> 
>   -- Edmond
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