Saa713x devices

Introduction

TV cards based on the saa713x chips are well supported. The picture quality is typically high, and the sound can be taken directly from the TV card or through a patch cable to your sound card. On the text capture front, teletext is supported. The only element still lacking is full support for closed captioning under NTSC; cf. a failed attempt. However, as of May 2005, this is actively worked on and very close to being solved. Taken together, the saa713x cards currently deliver better performance under Linux than both bttv and cx88 cards.

For an excellent guide, see Gentoo wiki's HARDWARE saa7134.

Installation

Avermedia

As described in AverTV_305/307_linux_user_guide, the following cards are supported

• AVerTV 305

• AVerTV Studio 305

• AVerTV 307

• AVerTV Studio 307

Lifeview

• FlyVideo3000FM NTSC
• FlyVideo3000 PAL-N

Terratec

• Terratec Cinergy 400
• Terratec Cinergy 400TV mobile