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aka1nas
9th September 2004, 00:45
Hi all,
I am looking for a replacement tv tuner for my old hauppauge WinTV theater. I have a choice between 2 cards: the Pinnacle PC TV Pro and the Kworld V-Stream DV/AV Expert TV Stereo. I did a little research and the Pinnacle card has a BT878a chip on it and the Kworld card has a CX23883 chip.

My usage pattern is mainly watching NTSC TV and capturing said TV to re-encode with virtualdub. I would like to maybe set up a mythTV box with this card eventually though, so which card has better linux support is a factor. Being that I am capturing with this card, capture quality is a concern also. What do you guys recommend?

Boulder
10th September 2004, 10:05
Here's a bit something:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=80033&highlight=CX23883+AND+bt878a

Arachnotron
12th September 2004, 18:33
two other considerations:

The CX23883 support under linux is AFAIK still experimental.
Also, capping using vdub with a CX2388x card often won't work.