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Pinnacle PCTV Pro
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7 14351 05-09-2005
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86% of reviewers $48.20 7.6



Description: # High quality Stereo TV tuner for hyper band cable and terrestrial antenna reception
# Digital MPEG VCR for TV - and video recording from Camcorder , VCR or DVD-Player
# Real Time MPEG1-, MPEG2-, DV- software compression with presets for VideoCD, SuperVCD, DVD format
# Direct Burn-to-disc of recorded MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 streams from the PCTV Vision capture library
# Still image capture with digital image improvement from TV and connected analogue video sources via PCTV Vision and via TWAIN interface
# Time-shifting feature lets you pause or replay while recording a live show
# Multi-channel matrix and automatic channel name recognition
# Easy-to-use timer for scheduled recording
# PCTV Installation Assistant for quick and easy setup
# WebText: Combines Teletext with the Internet and gives you instant access to all Teletext pages with convenient search engine and TOP-Text support
# Highest quality still frame capture
Keywords: tv pctv
/sbin/lspci output: 01:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
01:08.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
Chipset: Bt878a
Connection Type: PCI


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Old 01-19-2004, 10:30 AM   #1
Sparky2
 
Registered: Jan 2004
Posts: 0
Thanked: 0
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 6

Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.21
Distribution: Mandrake



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Compatible thanks the bttv878 chipset, unfortunately the sound must be recorded thanks a soundcard when recording from video (composite or SVHS).

I don't know for the tv tuner
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Old 02-18-2004, 05:26 PM   #2
akarako
 
Registered: Feb 2004
Posts: 3
Thanked: 0
Would you recommend the product? no | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 3

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.3
Distribution: None - source from www.kernel.org


Input from S-VIDEO is ok but the tuner (Television input) is not working so far.
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Old 03-24-2004, 02:23 PM   #3
bhaskie
 
Registered: Jan 2004
Distribution: L.F.S 5.0 | FreeBSD 5.2 | Debian sid | Gentoo 2004.0 | Slackware 9.1
Posts: 78
Thanked: 0
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $40.00 | Rating: 8

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.4-bhaskie-2004-03-18
Distribution: LFS, Debian, FreeBSD, Gentoo


Runs flawlessly in all my linus distros. The remote control also works nicely with lirc and i can also use it to control xmms and mplayer.
With FreeBSD, the module has given a lot of problems. I keep getting sigalrm signals when i start xawtv or tvtime in FreeBSD. After compiling the FreeBSD kernel several times, the problem remains. Heard that it is a bug.
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Old 05-08-2004, 08:39 AM   #4
bareego
 
Registered: Nov 2003
Distribution: Crux 2.0
Posts: 66
Thanked: 0
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $70.00 | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.25-rc4
Distribution: crux 1.3


Works great in linux.
Can record video from it and watch TV.
Find the reception is a bit weak, is better to use a VCR's tuner for the reception, that way you can also record in stereo audio (if you VCR is stereo)

After I recompiled mplayer with optimization I can record TV with mencoder on my Duron 1200 at 640x480 in realtime into divx5 with 3D noise reduction and high quality.

Still the best chipset for linux until the digital ones become the norm.
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Old 08-26-2004, 04:36 AM   #5
myriad-zero
 
Registered: Aug 2004
Distribution: Debian
Posts: 38
Thanked: 0
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $50.00 | Rating: 7

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.3
Distribution: Fedora Core 2


Detected seemlessly under Fedora Core 2. Used tvtime to watch TV. I am having problem in configuring it under Debian.
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Old 01-11-2005, 04:38 AM   #6
nixcraft
 
Registered: Nov 2004
Distribution: RHEL3.0, FreeBSD 5.x, Debian 3.x, Soaris x86 v10
Posts: 379
Thanked: 0
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $40.00 | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.9
Distribution: FC3


Work nicely and automatically detected. I used tvtime to watch it. If you are India one small tweak needed for tv-tunner card you need to setup PAL as format for television.

And need to get sound directly from tvtunner card itself and not from your sound card
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Old 05-09-2005, 08:39 AM   #7
koloth
 
Registered: Jun 2004
Distribution: Slackware 12.1
Posts: 53
Thanked: 0
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $41.00 | Rating: 9

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.9
Distribution: Slackware 9.1


Works fine in every distribution i've tried to use it (Mandrake 7,7.2 and Slackware 9,9.1,10)
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