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On 10/3/2006, "maxim wexler" <blissfix@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>Hi group, |
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>Do these things work very well? What's a good one? Is |
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>it gentoo-friendly. |
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>I'll be using it with a Viewsonic 17" LCD with a |
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>digital connector and a ATI Radeon 256M vid card. |
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>I saw one work back in 2000 and thought the picture |
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>quality quite poor. Have they improved much since |
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>then? |
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>-Maxim |
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What is your TV source? Digital satellite? (DVB-S) Digital terrestial? |
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(DVB-T), analogue terrestial? Cable? What country are you in? |
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If you are after an analogue card I recommend a hauppauge PVR 150 or 250 |
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or 350 or 500. The ivtv drivers can be flaky, but are improving all the |
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time. The cards have a hardware mpeg-2 encoder, meaning you can get |
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encoded video without using much cpu time. |
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Also most stuff based on the bt878 chipset will work via the bttv driver. |
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If it is DVB stuff you are afdter, look to the linuxtv.org website. |
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You'll also get a lot of help on the mythtv mailing lists. |
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