From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n7BHbllQ025631 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:37:47 -0400 Received: from partygirl.tmr.com (mail.tmr.com [64.65.253.246]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n7BHbTjT006806 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:37:30 -0400 Received: from partygirl.tmr.com (partygirl.tmr.com [127.0.0.1]) by partygirl.tmr.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n7BHbT6b010114 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:37:29 -0400 Message-ID: <4A81AC59.5020306@tmr.com> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:37:29 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen MIME-Version: 1.0 To: video4linux M/L References: <4A7B2BDB.5000906@tmr.com> <829197380908061221l54ba8f1pcbec404200ae6c93@mail.gmail.com> <4A7B37F9.8070905@tmr.com> <829197380908061318x5ee6ccfbn5d8890e98b6f6325@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <829197380908061318x5ee6ccfbn5d8890e98b6f6325@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Is there any working video capture card which works and is still made? List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: video4linux-list-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: video4linux-list-bounces@redhat.com List-ID: 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 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 > -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- video4linux-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:video4linux-list-request@redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list