Subj : Re: Recomendation for a video card...
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Jerry McBride
Date : Sat Sep 18 2004 01:22 pm

Sybren Stuvel wrote:

> 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.
> 

Is the MPEG2 hardware usable? If so, what drivers do you use to operate your
pvr350 on linux. I'm asking, because I'm looking for a tvcard upgrade from
my old hauppauge wintv card.

Thanks, in advance.

> 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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