Subj : Re: Recomendation for a video card...
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Sybren Stuvel
Date : Wed Sep 15 2004 10:36 am

Nairb enlightened us with:
> I want a tv tuner card, but it wll be going into a small system with
> limited pci agp slots. I was thinking a combined video/ tv tuner
> card => AGP. I don't really need powerful video capability as I
> don't play games, unless that is required for TV that is?

Hmm... the only TV tuner card I have any experience with is the
Hauppauge WinTV PVR350, which has a hardware MPEG2 encoder & decoder.
Works pretty well. You can also use it's video output to connect to
your television, so you can use that as a monitor.

I don't know if your computer will boot without a video card, though.
Also, you can only use the PVR350 as a video card in X, so you can't
use it before you've set up X.

Sybren
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