On 17-Feb-2002 Steve Tell wrote: > On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Trevor Boicey wrote: > >> ...or am I stuck in the past with bt848 cards, and there >> is an easily available well-supported PCI card that I can >> get off the shelf? > > The '848 chip is past tense; the Bt878 chip is currently in production > (Although the Conexant web site does list it as "not recommended for new > designs"). > Lots of PCI cards use this chip. > > Followup questions: > - which are the least expensive no-frills one that have been seen? > - my understanding is that if you don't care about the tuner (just > composite or Svideo input), all '878 cards are pretty much the > same and "just work" with V4L. True or False? depends on the model. I have the Win-TV model 747. video works fine, audio mostly doesn't. rgds, -Greg +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ You can release software that's good, software that's inexpensive, or software that's available on time. You can usually release software that has 2 of these 3 attributes -- but not all 3. | Greg Hosler hosler@xxxxxxxxxxx | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
