On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 04:44:48PM -0500, Chuck Hays wrote: > Hello, > > Can anyone recommend a simple tv tuner card to be used in linux to tune > basic cable and watch it on a monitor? > > Something sold at general nanosystems would be great too =) *BIG FAT WARNING* don't get the ATI VE cards that require the GATOS drivers. You want something based on the bt8x8 chips (bt848, bt878) such as the hauppauge WinTV cards This one is compatible: http://www.nanosys1.com/tv-hp-wintv190.html I recommend using tvtime, as it's very cpu efficient and gives you the best picture (with the deinterlacing filters, and XDS information decoding such as the name of the current TV program, when it started, when it ends, TV ratings, etc), it's also *fast* -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list