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On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 01:29:42 +0000 Julian Hall wrote:
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
It's a Medion card... bought it from Lidl (or was it Aldi, I forget) for about £30. Cheap and cheerful. It uses the Philips SAA7134 chipset. I've had it working fantastically under Mandrake for general TV/Radio playback, but I've never successfully got it to record, but then I've never tried that hard. It's supposed to be fully V4L.2 compatible. Currently the correct module loads automagically (saa7134) but I need to pass it: option card=10 and I don't know where to put that. Once I've got that sorted, it'll be fine (I hope :D). Grant. -- Artificial intelligence is no match for nuratal stidutipy. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.