Re: Video Capture Hardware

From: Vampire at Wicked Empire (vampire_at_sco.com)
Date: 09/07/03 

Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 12:27:50 +0000 (UTC)

Captain Dondo <yan@NsOeSiPnAeMr.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 07:40:41 +0000, Dave {Reply Address in.sig} wrote:
> > Having thoroughly confused myself looking at various bits of hardware, can
> > anyone recommend a cheap (or even no-so-cheap) video capture board that
> > works with Linux?
> > I've seen references to $10 boards that are supported but I've never
> > actually seen an ad for such a board so some real part numbers would help.
> > I'd like it to be capable of RGB and PAL capture, although having NTSC as
> > well would be good.
> > Dave
> Any of the BT8x8 boards will work fine. I have an ATI something or other
> and it works fine for both PAL and NTSC capture, and has both composite
> and coax inputs.
> There are various variants of the board; some have sound in, some have
> S-Video, from what I understand some Euro variants have SCART....
> But they all work fine.
> CPU is an issue - you will need a minimum of an athlon 2000 to do
> full-size capture.
> -Dondo

I can do tv recroding with 640x480, 30 frames/sec 2Mbits/sec
on fftv. My CPU is celeron 1.3G. My tv-card is winfast tv-2000 (bt878) 

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