Carlos Betancourt wrote:
Acording to http://europe.hercules.com/showpage.php?p=59&b=0&f=1 this card has a BT 878 chipset, however I've been unable to find a mention of that card in the bttv documentation (/usr/src/linux/Documentation/video4linux/bttv)
Hercules Smart TV Stereo is supported for TV, see e.g. bttv-0.7.106. However they have a proprietary method to switch audio inputs (e.g. external line in). Don't know if sound on the mono card works. For complete supported we would need - Hercules to document how to switch inputs - sniff on the i2c bus to find the switching commands e.g. with http://warmcat.com/milksop/cheapi2c.html
Lately I've found lots of surprises with TV Tuner cards. For instance, I bought a WinTV GO thinking it had a BT878 chip, however they now have a CX21881 chip which is not supported by the bttv driver (there is a cx88 driver in progress, but it's very alpha). Another example is the Pinnacle PCTV Rave, which used to work with the bttv driver, but new models have a new tuner so sound doesn't work (http://lists.snowman.net/pipermail/mythtv-users/2003-April/002869.html)
The new Pinnacle cards work fine with e.g. bttv-0.7.106
