[LUG] Video capture cards [Was [LUG] Loading additional modules withDebian on 2.6?]

[Julian Hall <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Grant Sewell wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> I'm finally getting around to getting my TV card to work again.  I had it working perfectly under Mandrake with a 2.4 kernel, but things have changed since then :D
>  
Hi Grant,

What card do you have?  Video/TV Capture is one of the only reasons I 
still use Windows at all.  In Linux use I would be looking for a card 
with similar capability to my current one, ie full DVD quality capture 
(AVI or MPG), hardware encoder for best performance, and a standard 
chipset known to work in Linux.  To be honest it doesn't *actually* need 
a TV encoder as I change channel on the cable box anyway.  Full screen 
preview would be nice (something Pinnacle Studio in Windows drops the 
ball badly with!)

My current card is a Pinnacle DC10+.  I know all about the websites 
proclaiming it works in Linux.  They're only partially right which is 
annoying as that error cost me just over a ton.  It works in Linux on 
the *old* chipset.  I've got one of the new ones, the Bendino chipset.  
The developer on SourceForge was very helpful, but knows nothing other 
than the name and Pinnacle are very reticent about helping out.

Kind regards,

Julian

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