[wellylug] TV tuner card

[Pizbit]

There was a nice long thread(or maybe a few heh) a month or two ago about the 
LifeView FlyVideo 3000(philips saa7134) card and recording using mencoder, with 
example mencoder lines and whatnot too.

Personally I have the saa7134 which works nicely and is well supported except 
for the occasion annoyance of it changing to static on the change of channel and 
can take a bit to get back, but for me that isn't very often(once a weeks top, 
more like once in every 2).

I use this for mencoder and it uses ~75% of my AMD 1800+XP producing a good 
quality file of respectable file size.

mencoder -tv 
channels=6:driver=v4l2:width=640:height=480:input=0:device=/dev/video0 tv:// 
-ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=1200:vhq:vqmin=2 -oac mp3lame 
-lameopts cbr:br=128 -vf pp=fd -endpos 00:05:00 -o testing1.avi


Andrej wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> I searched high and low for an affordable TV card for
> Linux, found a few but would want someones personal
> experience before I go and buy anything ... also, how
> well does which hdd recording option work?
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Andrej
> 
>