One thing to watch out for . . .
I have a WinTV card from Hauppage.  When I had a cheap video card in the
computer, I could record movies using Personal Video Recorder (PVR)
software.  Worked great.  I put a more expensive, nvidia gforce
something or other in it, and I can no longer record video.  All other
aspects of the video card are awesome, but I cannot record video.

YMMV.

George
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Bryce C wrote:
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> What's more. Where's there's TV and free software, there's bound to be
> VCR-like stuff.  Check out MythTV (http://www.mythtv.org). It aims, and=

> has pretty well completed, to be a free TiVo replacement (plus
> computer).  I absolutely love it especially with a 200Gb HD. I have mor=
e
> shows recorded than time to watch them.
> I will admit, I don't run it on my main box but It's not on a computer
> dedicated to it either.
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> On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 09:48, Jonathan Claxton wrote:
> > On Sat, 10 May 2003, linux wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Do you know of any hardware/software products that would allow me t=
o watch
> > > TV on my computer?
> > >
> > > Sundar
> > >
> >
> > I assume that you mean watching tv under Linux?
> >
> > There are LOTS of tv cards that one can pick. Just make sure that it =
is
> > compitable with Linux. http://bttv-v4l2.sourceforge.net/ is a place t=
o
> > start. Another place is http://www.exploits.org/v4l/ and still anothe=
r one
> > is http://linuxtv.org/dvb/ Most of the TV cards are driven by the btt=
v
> > device kernel driver.
> >
> > I'm running a Humppuage TV card that I watch TV all the time on a mon=
itor
> > in a window. I use zapping(Yep... that is a program) to watch tv.
> >
> > I also have a MSI G4Ti4200-VTD8X card that has VIVO jacks that I can =
watch
> > TV on my other Linux box. The special driver for it is a bit rough an=
d is
> > watchable but it's enuff for me to watch tv if my other box goes sout=
h for
> > whatever reason.
> >
> >
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