[MPlayer-users] What TV card to buy?

Marcin Bukat wodz at soliton.ch.pw.edu.pl
Fri Jan 10 00:20:14 CET 2003


Użytkownik Filip Kalinski napisał:

>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>Hello there,
>
>I'm thinking about buying a TV card, but I don't know what to choose.
>
>The choices are:
>- AverMedia GO + radio
>- LifeView 3000 + radio
>- PixelView TV/FM NICAM
>
>All cost about the same ($60-$70), what are the best supported wy linux
>bttv drivers, and what are the main differences?
>
>I have a Duron 800, will I be able to grab video to divx in realtime?
>
>  
>
1. AverMedia is known to produce good  quality capture cards however 
basicly all conexant bt8x8 based card are good for linux.
2. I have Celeron 950 at 1140 and 512MB ram and I am able to do grabing and 
realtime encoding to divx4 at 75% PAL resolution.

Wodz



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