Greg wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] tv-card' on Mon, Aug 09 at 12:10:
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 09:04:48 -0500, Danny Sauer
wrote: I would like to purchase a tvcard. What tvcards work under suse 9.1 and what is recomended?
I can personally recommend the Brooktree BT848 Chipset, mine came as a "WinTV" brand card from CompUSA, it's supported at http://www.hauppauge.com/. I don't think it's commercially supported for Linux but I've never had any real issues getting it working with any of the the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels, and Suse 9.1 handles it fine.
Most all the application software I have tried runs well, MythTV, kdetv, and xawtv. I like kdetv best, has an attractive but simple interface.
If only the TV card boxes said on the outside "BT848 chipset powered"... :) There's good lists of working chipsets, but no one ever makes a list of specific brand names that use those chips, or they only list cards that were discontinued 5 years ago. Argh. --Danny, getting back to work now