View source for Archived:Mailing List survey of devices in use

This is a distillation of a thread on the v4l mailing list (video4linux-list@redhat.com) with subject "Survey of v4l hardware usage for wiki"

For details, see that thread.  With time, I'll fold in more and more of those details in what I hope will be a readily digestable format, but as of now, refer to the thread.

I've tried to list the cards here in some semblance of order as to how well they perform in v4l, but it's highly subjective.  It's based upon how the respondents to the survey rated their satisfaction with their hardware on a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being happiest.

There's also a [http://www.wlug.org.nz/TvTunerCards nice link] at the WLUG-Wiki with the same sort of information and some additional cards and details not yet present below.  As I find these sorts of things, I'll be trying to fold them in here.

<table border="1">

<tr>
<th>Good Cards in Use Now</th>
<th>Author's rank</th>
<th>Comments/Notes</th>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>[[Hauppauge]] Nova-T </td>
<td>10</td>
<td></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>[[Leadtek WinFast 2000 XP]]</td>
<td>10</td>
<td></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>[[Hauppauge]] WinTV-PCI-FM model 619</td>
<td>10</td>
<td></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>[[Plextor ConvertX PVR PX-TV402U]]</td>
<td>9</td>
<td></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>[http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/8116/print Hauppauge WinTV-dbx or the model 401]</td>
<td>8/9</td>
<td></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>[[LifeView FlyVideo3000FM NTSC]]</td>
<td>8</td>
<td></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>pcHDTV-3000</td>
<td>7/8</td>
<td></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>[http://www.adstech.com/products/PTV-350/intro/PTV-350_intro.asp?pid=PTV-350 ADS Tech Instant TV PCI (aka PTV 350)]</td>
<td>N/A</td>
<td>Generally satisfied</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>Gateway/STB 6000402 (OEM)</td>
<td>6</td>
<td>Composite and S-Video inputs work well, but the TV/FM Tuner is untested or unsupported.</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>Gateway/STB 6000704 (OEM)</td>
<td>2</td>
<td>NTSC TV is known to work but requires module options and manually modprobing snd-bt87x load_all to enable audio.  </td>
</tr>
</table>


Some authors strongly recommended staying away from certain cards and certain companies.  Those are:

<table border="4">

<tr>
<th>Companies to Avoid</th>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>MSI</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>Softwell Technology Co. Ltd. in Taipei (major GPL violator; FSF pursuing them now)</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>Stancom, Inc in Atlanta, GA (major GPL violator and ripoff artist)</td>
</tr>

</table>
[[Category:Hardware]]