[vdr] Re: Which analog TV card?

[Lars Fredriksson <lars@fredriksson.net>]

> On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 06:43:33PM +0200, hm@seneca.muc.de wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > sorry if this is slightly off-topic, but I would like to get rid of my 
> > VHS
> > recorder and transfer some of my video tapes to digital. Playback should 
> > be
> > via my VDR e.g. using mplayer. Which Linux driver supported TV cards 
> > have a
> > composite video input? I would rather not  use the HF route. Any other
> > caveats? TIA!
> Why not simply use my
>
> http://akool.bei.t-online.de/vdr/analogtv/download/vdr-analogtv- 
> 0.9.14.tar.bz2
>
> analogTV-plugin? This way you dont need mplayer!
>
> You can use any bt848/bt878 grabber/TV card, i personally totally happy
> with a (cheap) "Pinnacle Studio PCTV pro" using the build in s-video or
> composite input. (Dont forget to buy a "stereo" card, and dont forget to
> buy a soundcard too - you need it to record the sound!)
Hi!

Are the Pinnacle PCTV Pro still using bt8x8-chipset? I got a brand new 
Hauppauge Win-TV yesterday - and I found out quite fast that it wasn't 
supported since it used a chipset that was called cx23880 ... so I'm 
thinking of ordering a new card but I don't know which to buy ...

/Lars

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