Thanks for the info. Yours is the only reply I've had, so I guess there really aren't any cards that work well with Linux. I'd hoped to be able to do this without crossbooting back to Window$, but if I can't I can't. Ah, well...maybe in time.
You shouldn't make that assumption based on a limited response from one list. Multimedia is a tricky thing on Linux, and video capture and manipulation is the cutting edge of it. That doesn't mean it's not possible, it just means that not many currently do it. You need to do more research. :o) I know that several of the firewire digital capture devices work under Linux, although from your original post that's maybe not what what you want. The analogue capture card market is fading fast, AFAICS, because all modern video equipment is now digital. My friend has a digital capture card with analogue inputs, but that particular one isn't Linux compatible. I like my DC10+ because it has hardware compression and a mature set of Linux tools. It may have been around for a few years, but it's still an option. They currently cost about 130 pounds in the UK, and probably less in the US. -- "...our desktop is falling behind stability-wise and feature wise to KDE ...when I went to Mexico in December to the facility where we launched gnome, they had all switched to KDE3." - Miguel de Icaza, March 2003