Capture Cards
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Curious what capture cards are supported in Mepis kernel 2.6.10
I plan to use to copy from my VCR to DVD recorder.
And perhaps TV watching on my computer.
Anyhow I did a search to see a DC10,IOmega Buz, and LML33 I found some of these on ebay, but not sure if they will work, and they appear to be older models.
The one I would really like is:
The TTOM878A:
features a Philips NTSC TV tuner module built-in, Connexant CX878A Logic Chip. The TV tuner card with FM Radio audio , allow to Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP users to receive and display TV analog channel up to 160 channels (NTSC Only) PCI revision 2.2-compliant.
Not sure if this will work with linux.
Please advise how I could find the list of supported capture devices.
Thanks
Thanks
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I'm considering this:
Pinnacle Studio MovieBox 9 USB 2.0
It appears to do what I want, however I may have to use WinBlows for this, but I hope not.
If anyone know of a good capture card for linux please post. I really would like to aviod using WinBlows
What about recording VCR to DV/ firewire
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What about recording VCR to DV/ firewire ?
How could this be done, ?
record to DV
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Easiest way is with a DV camcorder that has AV and/or S-video inputs.
I don't know anything about DV set-top recorders. Or DV capture cards.
Don't forget that DV requires approx 11 GB/hr storage. That's about what a DV tape holds.
Some resources
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Agent, I've just started looking around a little at the tv capture/pvr thing. The most interesting project for Linux seems to be Myth TV. Sounds like it would work for your more limited purposes, too.
There's a very detailed guide to homemade pvrs at 2CPU that covers 3 Windows-based options plus MythTV. He seems to like Haupaugge cards a lot, too, so that's what I'm looking at. They really sound superior, and at least some of their line apparently works well with Linux.
If I ever really get to doing something beyond buying a Tivo or one of its competitors, these will be the sites I'll be counting on. Let us know what you find out.
Yep
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WinTV PVR-250 sounds nice or the 350 thanks, I'm going to look some more on ebay
Thanks again.
myth tv
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i couldn't get myth tv to compile, so i went for freevo, and after a crash course in python i got it configured.
what i did find was a distro that was based on knoppix and ran mythtv. (knoppmyth)
unfortunately you had to install to configure it, and i wasn't going to waste a working video recording setup that had taken weeks to achieve
So how's the freevo working?
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So how's the freevo working? It doesn't seem to get the attention that mythtv and knoppmyth do.
What kind of setup do you have, how hard was it to set up? Is it doing what you wanted?
Details would be much enjoyed and appreciated.
freevo
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freevo is working bit by bit.
first you set up the individual parts
tv card
tv card sound
sound capture from line-in
then you set up the individual programs that freevo calls
tvtime
mplayer
then you learn python very quickly
because the config file is written in python.
from experience, you change each piece one at a time, test the result, change back if freevo hangs and so on.
the card is a bttv878
the sound is (cheap sound card)
the mepis is fairly recent
so far, no tv programs because i can't get the australian programs for tvguide to run.
the recordserver and the webserver interface are working fine, but it's easiest to use to record from the freevo interface without the tv guide.
the mplayer documentation is many pages long, and in there you have to find odd settings eg how to record with sound instead of without, but after weeks of experimentation it is now running.
MythTV Cards
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I have built alot of mythTV boxes now.. and there are only 3 cards I would use because thay just work!
PVR-500 For the back end
PVR-150 with remote for the front end
and NVidia MX4000 for the TV out
This will let you record 3 movies at once or watch 3 at once, all up to you.. This hardware will be completely trouble FREE!! and works vary well.. You will not ever see me fight with ATI! STAY AWAY FROM THEM CARDS.. I have tried some and yes I got them working but it was a hand full so if you want trouble free hardware then just go with the above listed hardware and you will be happy you did.
I have to agree that Freevo
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I have to agree that Freevo is much easier to setup and maintain once you've got iit up and running. I could never seem to get MythTV to work the way I wanted. I hope Freevo 2.0 has a gui set-up option.
Bt848 Cap-Card
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I have an older ZOLTRIX "BT848" based Capture Card that's auto-detected on every Linux distro I try.
It's actually less problematic to install under Linux than XP.
I beleive the ATI Wonder series has this Conexant chipset and the more recent BT878 version.
MEPIS-just works.
Digital Video
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DV capture over firewire works perfectly. Of course you need a DV device (e.g. camcorder) and a firewire card.
ATI TV Wonder VE works fine, but I haven't used mine recently so I can't give detailed instructions.
ADS "Instant DVD" is a nice box that captures to MPEG-2 (DVD standard) over USB. I wish there were a Linux driver, but I know of none. I'm afraid I must admit that I boot windows and use this box. Of course, I capture to a shared FAT drive and then use Linux for further processing.
Haven't tried Haupage cards on Linux ...