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.

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.

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.

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.