12 Dec
2011
12 Dec
'11
12:15 p.m.
Now that you and Cameron mentioned it, I'll look through my junk pile. I am pretty
sure I have at least one TV card in there. Thank you.
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From: David Riley <fraveydank at gmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:38:58
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Subject: Re: TV -> D-Sub converter possible?
On Dec 12, 2011, at 12:15 PM, vintagecoder at aol.com wrote:
Often enough, yes. You just need to look for the appropriate ports; some of the REALLY
cheap ones only have a tuner and nothing else. I really liked the AVI TV Wonder that I
have (CX2388x-based, red PCB); it had a little purple breakout box with the composite,
S-Video and audio connections so that everything else could fit on the card bracket.
For Linux, my best luck has been with bt848/878 (almost the same chip) followed by CX2388x
(the next step up after Conexant bought Brooktree; there are newer chips in the series
that support e.g. PCI Express, but I don't know their level of support under Linux).
There are a handful of Philips chips supported, but I've never tried them.
The Windows viewing apps that come with the cards are almost universally terrible, but a
good third-party one I've used is DScaler (it's been a while since I've fooled
around with it, though, and they were going through a major project renovation, so it
could be either better or worse by now).
For Linux, I always preferred fbtv, but most people don't like fooling around with the
framebuffer layer any more than they have to. I really liked the ability the framebuffer
layer gave me to create custom graphics modes with weird sizes and fixed frequencies that
optimized the experience; alas, none of that is likely to work well without an analog
monitor anymore. I also liked being able to just start the viewer without having to start
X. I don't know what the general favorite is for operating it under X; when I was
using it, it was xawtv. I imagine that MythTV probably has a Video4Linux backend?
- Dave
Or you can get
a TV card for a PC for under $20. Most of them work
nicely with Linux and all of them work with Windows, though the actual
viewing applications get a bit ugly.
I meant to ask about this since I have no idea what it is, I thought it
would be used for receiving over-the-air TV signals. Are you saying they
have input jacks that would work with old computers that had TV output
connections?