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From: Robert J. Rossana on 24 Jan 2006 08:43 I would be grateful to get recommendations from people on TV cards that are linux-friendly. I just bought a WinTV 150 PVR and cannot get it to work, even in WinXP. so I will probably return it and try another. Thanks in advance for the help. Bob
From: Måns Rullgård on 24 Jan 2006 14:20 "Robert J. Rossana" <rjrossana(a)gmail.com> writes: > I would be grateful to get recommendations from people on TV cards that > are linux-friendly. I just bought a WinTV 150 PVR and cannot get it to > work, even in WinXP. so I will probably return it and try another. > Thanks in advance for the help. Depending on where you are, a DVB-T card might be suitable for your needs. The WinTV Nova-T seems to be working fine here with Linux. -- M?ns Rullg?rd mru(a)inprovide.com
From: Bill Kraski on 24 Jan 2006 22:40 Robert J. Rossana wrote: > I would be grateful to get recommendations from people on TV cards that > are linux-friendly. I just bought a WinTV 150 PVR and cannot get it to > work, even in WinXP. so I will probably return it and try another. > Thanks in advance for the help. I had one of those & returned it -- poor video. At least with SuSE 10, the ATI TV Wonder has had an almost perfect picture, here. Some folks don't like ATI, but this one worked best of the two I tried here. Note: you probably want to avoid the All-in-Wonder cards -- lots of reported difficulties. Bill K
From: J. Clarke on 25 Jan 2006 08:53 Robert J. Rossana wrote: > I would be grateful to get recommendations from people on TV cards that > are linux-friendly. I just bought a WinTV 150 PVR and cannot get it to > work, even in WinXP. so I will probably return it and try another. > Thanks in advance for the help. A WinTV PVR-150 that doesn't work under XP is either broken or telling you that you've got a hardware configuration problem. Get it to work under XP, which should be trivially easy with that board, then try it under Linux and it should go more smoothly. -- --John to email, dial "usenet" and validate (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)
From: J. Clarke on 25 Jan 2006 08:56
Bill Kraski wrote: > Robert J. Rossana wrote: > >> I would be grateful to get recommendations from people on TV cards that >> are linux-friendly. I just bought a WinTV 150 PVR and cannot get it to >> work, even in WinXP. so I will probably return it and try another. >> Thanks in advance for the help. > > I had one of those & returned it -- poor video. At least with SuSE 10, > the > ATI TV Wonder has had an almost perfect picture, here. Some folks don't > like ATI, but this one worked best of the two I tried here. Note: you > probably want to avoid the All-in-Wonder cards -- lots of reported > difficulties. You have to be careful about _which_ TV Wonder--some use standard Brooktree, Conexant, or Phillips chips which are generally well supported, while others use ATI's proprietary Rage Theatre chip, which has very poor support under Linux. This is the problem with the AIW boards as well. The ones that use the standard chips don't do anything that other brands of board using the same chips don't do. > > Bill K -- --John to email, dial "usenet" and validate (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |