Re: Is there any working video capture card which works and is still made?

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

I thank all the folks who wrote me directly, but... see below.

Devin Heitmueller wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Bill Davidsen<davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:
>> Though I covered that, the signal of interest is clear QAM and NTSC
>> (analog). I haven't seem any cards for busses other than PCI or PCIe, USB is
>> only on a dongle (AFAIK). If I could pass access to the bus back to a VM I
>> could just run XP under KVM, but that's not exactly supported, either.
> 
> Well, I'm not sure you really answered the question.  What bus type
> specifically are you looking for?  For PCI you can go with HVR-1600 or
> PCTV 800i.  For USB you can get HVR-950q or HVR-1950 if you want an
> onboard MPEG encoder.  There are lots of products which are currently
> supported.  A good amount of this also depends on which distro and
> version you are interested in (since that effects which kernel it is
> up to relative to when support was added for products).
> 
> Have you looked at the product matrices on the Wiki:
> 
> http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/ATSC_USB_Devices
> http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/ATSC_PCI_Cards
> http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/ATSC_PCIe_Cards
> 
>> I was hoping someone would pop up with a solution like a dual mode HDhomerun
>> or slingshot, too much to hope.
>>
>>> Might also be nice what your large collection is composed of, since we
>>> might be able to get some of them to work.
>>>
Since you quoted the HVR-950Q as working, I tried one of those. Someone else 
said the ATI HDTV-Wonder works. Neither do. I tried all of the programs people 
swore work with these cards: tvtime, xawtv, cheese, and vlc. Mythtv appears to 
need the whole system tuned to be a pvr, not the intent here, users want to 
monitor CNN, MSNBC, and similar news or financial channels in a window without 
needing to get a TV for each seat.

And after all that I am still at ground zero, not only nothing I would date try 
to give to an end user, but nothing I want to use myself, tuning by frequencies 
in MHz, good grief! The kernel loads drivers and makes entries in /dev/dvb 
and/or /dev/videoN, but none of the software people suggested does anything useful.

>> Nothing with a driver, unfortunately, and much of it obsolete by this time,
>> ie. driver now but out of production. When the FCC stopped approving
>> non-digital cards a lot of stuff went off the market. I'd go with a mix of
>> analog card and HDhomerun if I had to.
> 
> Well, the notion of "nothing with a driver" is pretty subjective.  We
> are adding driver support for products all the time, and if you threw
> out a list of product names they might now be supported or could be
> supported with minimal effort.
> 
> Devin
> 


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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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