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Nice little Brooktree 878 card that worked like a charm right out of the box. Xawtv can almost do full screen on my system without noticeable artifacts. Uses the bttv and btaudio modules. Of course, requires a kernel with video4linux enabled.
Using this card for recording has proven very difficult, than again most bttv cards produce the same problems in my opinion. Getting audio and video to sync properly can be pain. Captures from Xawtv are not that great. I have slightly better success with Broadcast 2000 and Cinelerra, but again, audio sync issues. MainActor worked pretty well and captures using mjpeg tools at 320x240 are nice. Still, anything beyond just watching tv will take a bit of work.
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $50.00 | Rating: 8
Kernel (uname -r):
2.4.x
Distribution:
Slackware 8-9.x
I wanted to add that I had particular problems with the Creative SB Live card and audio capture. I could hear audio, but not get a good capture. If I boosted the audio channel to 80% or more then I would get audio. I did not have this problem with the SB16.
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $30.00 | Rating: 10
Kernel (uname -r):
2.6.0
Distribution:
Gentoo
This is just about the most generic TV card available, and as such it's support is as near to perfect as can be imagined. So much so that it works better under Linux than it did when I tried it on Windows. Issues raised in the review above do not relate to the support of the card at all, but the users choice of end-user software. full motion video and audio capture is very straight forward using decent applications, all through the bttv driver and v4l API in general.
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 0
Kernel (uname -r):
2.6.6
Distribution:
debian
hello
Please acid_kewpie, can you tell what is the best software you recommend to use and the best way to use them to get the best from this card.
thx for you're help.
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 10
Kernel (uname -r):
2.6.8.1
Distribution:
Debian unstable/sid
Great little card.
If you have the CPU to burn, I recommend TVtime for viewing:
http://tvtime.sourceforge.net/
For capturing I recommend NVrec:
http://nvrec.sourceforge.net/
The .nuv files can be played by MPlayer and converted using Transcode. Even on my old Athlon-750 I could turn the quality up to 100% at 640x576 (PAL) capture. With my newer Athlon-XP 2400+ I can easily do 720x576 or 768x576. I then use one of the deinterlacing filters in transcode and scale it down to 640x480 or smaller. I have a good collection of video clips encoded with XViD/Vorbis.
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