Re: Is there any working video capture card which works and is still made?

Devin Heitmueller wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Bill Davidsen<[email protected]> wrote:
>   
>> Since you quoted the HVR-950Q as working, I tried one of those. Someone else
>> said the ATI HDTV-Wonder works. Neither do. I tried all of the programs
>> people swore work with these cards: tvtime, xawtv, cheese, and vlc. Mythtv
>> appears to need the whole system tuned to be a pvr, not the intent here,
>> users want to monitor CNN, MSNBC, and similar news or financial channels in
>> a window without needing to get a TV for each seat.
>>     
>
> Well since I did the support for the HVR-950Q, I'm pretty sure it
> works. :-)  With regards to the "ATI HDTV-Wonder" card you referred
> to, there are many cards with that name, so you would need to be more
> specific (providing a model number and bus type).  For example, I did
> the work for the "ATI TV Wonder HD 600 USB".  For analog support, both
> of the above cards work fine with tvtime.
>
>   
Do you have some particular application with which you think it "works?" 
If by works you mean a /dv/video0 and /dev/dvb/* ar created and the 
kernel log shows no errors, then it works. By works I mean there is some 
application (I listed several) which actually has audio and video, and 
the number of such I can identify is still zero. When analog cards were 
being made virtually every application worked fine,

> If you have a specific case that is causing you problems, please
> provide details as to exactly which card you are trying to use, which
> distro and application you are using, and what errors you are seeing
> and we will see if we can help you debug your problem.  But saying
> vague things like "nothing works" isn't really a constructive way to
> improve your situation.
>
>   
I went out and got the HVR-950Q because you said it worked, as noted 
above the kernel like it but nothing I can find will use it usefully, I 
posted the lspci -vvvv for the ATI HDTV-Wonder, what exactly more do you 
need to identify a specific card? This is the problem I've had for 
years, that cards with the same part number aren't the same part. :-(
>> And after all that I am still at ground zero, not only nothing I would date
>> try to give to an end user, but nothing I want to use myself, tuning by
>> frequencies in MHz, good grief! The kernel loads drivers and makes entries
>> in /dev/dvb and/or /dev/videoN, but none of the software people suggested
>> does anything useful.
>>     
>
> You only need to tune to something specifying MHz if you are using the
> command line tools.  The GUI applications have built in mechanisms to
> change channels.
>
> I agree that there is plenty of room for improvement in the
> application space.  Feel free to roll up your sleeves and help out
> (that's how I got involved in the project, after all).  Given the
> number of devices people are demanding support for, we are quite
> understaffed and could use all the help we could get.
>
> Devin
>
>   


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