Video capture recommendation
 

I want to install a video captue card on my system. Something that will take PAL / s-video.
My configuration is:

/sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 746 Host (rev 10)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SG86C202
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS963 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 25)
00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller (rev a0)

00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 90)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev b2)

uname -a
Linux linux 2.6.13-15-default #1 Tue Sep 13 14:56:15 UTC 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux


Any suggestions for a good card and software?
My system has mjpegtools available but not installed. It's description recommends Zoran MJPEG framegrabber-based hardware. Is it worth searching for hardware that has this?

I am currently running SuSE 10.0. Is it worth upgrading to 10.3 before attempting to play with new video hardware?

regards

Mo

Here are some places that list cards and their level of support:
http://www.linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index...l_card_vendors
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php..._capture_cards

You might want to look at MythTV too. While it is meant more for the tuner market(PVR) it is pretty versatile and has wide hardware support.

Thanks Guys. I'll look at these sites :)

regards
Mo