TV-Card

gaah · 2004-10-11 00:03:13

Is there a good wiki for installing TV-Cards? I can't find any! I have a winfast 2000 card, anyone knows what I should do? And I might add that I know nothing about those cards, I haven't used one at all before, not even in windows!

phrakture · 2004-10-11 04:33:22

i would check out the gossamer threads on mythtv.org...

the best tv card is a hauppauge pvr250.... the encoding is done on the card, meaning almost no cpu is used...

other than that mythtv has information about all this stuff (and when I get around to it, i'll make some myth tv packages for arch... it rocks!)

robot5x · 2004-10-11 11:49:21

I had the same problem when I got a tv card....
altho my problem was really buying one with conexant chip which is pretty crappy at the moment in linux (ie.no sound).
I eventually got some bt878-based card from ebay. The kernel docs gave me a lot of hints about whether it would be supported, and what to do to get it to work. In the end, it was just a question of trial and error, in terms of passing the right parameters when insmodding the bttv modules.
I got some good bookmarks at home, I'll post them when I get there.

robot5x · 2004-10-16 13:09:53

Hmm..forgot about this. Here's a few bookmarks I found helpful
http://linux.bytesex.org/v4l2/faq.html
http://www.linuxlogin.com/linux/wintv.php
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~jcs116/wintv_cx88.html
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php? … =dev+video
http://www.freeos.com/articles/3007/
http://home.t-online.de/home/gunther.ma … llery.html
http://linux.co.uk/Pages/howtos/BTTV.html#ss4.4

These may or may not be useful depending on your hardware but theres some interesting stuff amongst it all. don't forget also the v4l mailing list for any specific help - you might also try the mplayer mailing list if you're feeling brave.

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#1 2004-10-11 00:03:13

TV-Card

#2 2004-10-11 04:33:22

Re: TV-Card

#3 2004-10-11 11:49:21

Re: TV-Card

#4 2004-10-16 13:09:53

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