On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 05:00:50PM -0500, Bob Tanner wrote: > What WinTV cards work the best? Or is WinTV the brand/make/model? > > I'd like to transfer a bunch of video on VHS to something more durable, like > dvd, what hardware would I use for that? It depends, the WinTV PVR cards (250 & 350, the 350 has an onboard MPEG-1/2 decoder and S-Video+sound output) are great for making DVD's, since they can output MPEG-2 in DVD format. The drivers aren't *mature* but they certainly work (http://ivtv.sf.net), the only things it's really missing is VBI (closed captions, XDS) and support for the decoder on the 350's. Driver development is proceeeding rapidly. If you just want to watch TV, or prefer to do your own encoding, grab a WinTV card with the bt848 or bt878 chipset (all have this besides the PVR and DVB cards), and use 'tvtime' under linux, it has great deinterlacing, and supports XDS data (tells you info about what's on the channel you're tuned to, when it started, when it ends, etc) -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list