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Anyone here have a TV tuner?
bedouin:
Any cards based on the bt848 chipset generally work flawlessly in 'alternative' operating systems, and can be obtained for pennies off of eBay. The vanilla Hauppauge WinTV cards would probably be something to look into. I used a WinTV card regularly with BeOS and Linux. I have no idea what the name of the tuner software was though in Linux; it was whatever came with Mandrake five years ago.
Orethrius:
--- Quote from: bedouin ---Any cards based on the bt848 chipset generally work flawlessly in 'alternative' operating systems, and can be obtained for pennies off of eBay. The vanilla Hauppauge WinTV cards would probably be something to look into. I used a WinTV card regularly with BeOS and Linux. I have no idea what the name of the tuner software was though in Linux; it was whatever came with Mandrake five years ago.
--- End quote ---
Yeah, and by the time the auction ends, it's hit $50 that I don't have, and I've already been burned by non-shippers.
No thanks on eBay unless I know the seller. ;)
That being said, what about LinTV or whatever it's called (V4L I think)?
Is that compatible at all, if not, are there modules available to help transition it?
It's a shared box, and that's really the only thing precluding me from totally switching it to Slackware.
toadlife:
Whatever you do, don't get an ATI TV Wonder. In FreeBSd I have to tweak kernel values to get it to work properly, and in Windows I've allways had little problems with ATI's drivers/apps.
toadlife:
--- Quote from: Orethrius ---Yeah, and by the time the auction ends, it's hit $50 that I don't have, and I've already been burned by non-shippers.
No thanks on eBay unless I know the seller. ;)
That being said, what about LinTV or whatever it's called (V4L I think)?
Is that compatible at all, if not, are there modules available to help transition it?
It's a shared box, and that's really the only thing precluding me from totally switching it to Slackware.
--- End quote ---
I paid $49.99 at Best Buy for my ATI Video Wonder VE, and I think there was a $10.00 rebate. This was over two years ago. For a used one of these on ebay, I wouldn't bid over $5.
toadlife:
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