[lug] video4linux cardlists

[Brian Talley]

On 4/18/07, Stephen Queen <svqueen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am becoming interested in purchasing a TV-Tuner/Capture Card. My
> question is, looking in the kernel documentation under video4linux I
> see some text files that are card lists. Some of the cards listed
> appear to have address ranges listed next to them, others don't. Are
> all these cards supported by the kernel, or just the ones with the
> address ranges, or none of them? Its just not clear to me what these
> lists are trying to tell me.
>
> Does anyone have suggestions for available TV-Tuner/Capture Cards?
>

I can't comment on the v4l kernel docs, but this serves as a decent
reference for me:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Video_capture_cards

The Hauppauge PVR series is supposed to have pretty good support
(according to the MythTV community anyway).


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