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Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1250 1196 Video Capture

$68.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
i bought it for the atsc tuner and it works out of the box with linux, so 4 stars.
from www.amazon.com
i purchased this card to be put into a mythtv (linux) home-built dvr.
from www.amazon.com
worked out of the box in my linux mythtv system.

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Positives: Analog Video Format: NTSC, Adapter Type: Video Capture,TV Input, Record TV to Disk,Cable Ready TV Tuner,Satellite Ready TV Tuner, S-Video,Composite Video

2 RECOMMENDED by 4 people for LINUX

SYBA Port Expansion Cards

SYBA (SD-PCI-PCM) (SDPCIPCM) Port Expansion Cards

$22.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.newegg.com
2 - works with linux 3 - works perfectly with my orinoco 802.11g card cons: none
from www.newegg.com
comments: works fine in suse linux 9.3 - no problems, automatically configured, etc.
from www.newegg.com
pros: works great under windows and linux both!
from www.newegg.com
pros: recoginized immediately with suse 9.3 linux.
from www.newegg.com
pros: great card, works well under xp, linux (suse 10/10.1, slax, knoppix) no problems with this card using smc wireless cardbus...

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Positives: Adapter Type: Port Expansion Cards, Interface with Host: PCI, Platform: PC, Operating System: Microsoft Windows 2000,Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition,Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition,Microsoft Windows XP

3 RECOMMENDED by 2 people for LINUX

Diamond.com TV Wonder HD 650 TVW650PCIE Input

Diamond.com TV Wonder HD 650 (TVW650PCIE) TV Input

$97.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
as far as using a tv tuner card, u should be using windows media center on vista ultimate on at least 2gigs of ram, or ubuntu linux's mythtv if you don't know what those are i suggest you google
from www.amazon.com
i heartedly agree that linux has some much better functionality, but last time i checked linux support for these ati cards was (design yourselfware)?
from www.amazon.com
dont get this one, make sure you get the pci express (pci-e), this is the best you can get right now, this branch of ati is very good at making these products, best if used with mythtv on linux, or

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Positives: Supported Digital Video Standards: MPEG-2, Analog Video Format: NTSC, Adapter Type: TV Input,Radio Input,Video Converter, Other Features: FM Radio Tuner

4 RECOMMENDED by 2 people for LINUX

Swann Communications PC-DVR-4 NET SWRPCDVR4 Video

$412.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
it also is not linux compatible.
from www.amazon.com
i also was disappointed to learn that my mac laptop, and linux-based nokia n800 tablet are not be able to view the video stream remotely, because they do not support internet explorer.

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Positives: Analog Video Format: NTSC,PAL, Supported Digital Video Standards: MPEG-4, Adapter Type: Video Capture, Video Input: BNC

5 RECOMMENDED by 2 people for LINUX

Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1950 1192 Video Capture

$143.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
2009.05.29: just got my hvr-1950 yesterday and plugged it into my linux box (after pre-installing the firmwares as instructed by the pvrusb2 linux website) and it works as i planned with xvmc.
from www.amazon.com
like free mythtv for linux.

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Positives: Analog Video Format: NTSC, Supported Digital Video Standards: MPEG-2, Adapter Type: Video Capture, MPEG-2 Hardware Encoder

ASUS My Cinema-PHC3-100/NAQ/FM/AV/RC TV Input

$91.00 Est. at Amazon

from tabbykat, www.newegg.com
cons: i was hoping to use in dual-boot system with linux also, but haven't found a way yet.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
cons: no linux (fedora) support!

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Positives: Supported Digital Video Standards: MPEG-2, Analog Video Format: NTSC, Adapter Type: TV Input, Other Features: FM Radio Tuner

Xonar Dx/xd Low Profile 7.1 Channel Audio Card Pci-e

$90.00 Est. at Amazon

from fyc2108, www.newegg.com
also linux (latest alsa) detected the card without a problem.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
pros: based on the successful oxygen chip from c-media, which means it not only puts out good sound, but the drivers are mature and linux support is there with newer distros (albeit unofficial and

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Sabrent TV-PCIRC

$27.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.newegg.com
works with linux after a little coaxing.
from www.newegg.com
this means it is unlikely to work with linux/bsd.
from www.newegg.com
linux everything works but the remote(works now but had to configure another program, big pain).
from www.newegg.com
cons: as others have mentioned it takes a little coaxing to get working in linux.
from www.newegg.com
pros: very inexspensive, works well under linux, picture quality is good for most channels.cons: picture quality is not great for low channels (2 - 9), has a few fuzzy vertical lines though it.

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Positives: Supported Digital Video Standards: MPEG-1,MPEG-2,MPEG-4, Adapter Type: TV Input,Video Capture, Supported Digital Video S: MPEG-2,MPEG-4,MPEG-1, Capture Resolution: 720 x 576

KWorld ATSC 120 KWATSC120 Video Capture

$66.00 Est. at Amazon

from bvrev.compusa.com
vista 64, linux).
from N/A, www.newegg.com
works in linux, kind of, following linuxtv.org or mythtv.org.
from myth_user45, www.newegg.com
a linux tutorial does exist for supposedly getting this card to work - updating kernel, running the firmware script, and adding a few lines in a couple of files to make it work on reboot.
from NighTalon, www.newegg.com
may work well with linux.

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Positives: Analog Video Format: NTSC, Supported Digital Video Standards: MPEG-2, Adapter Type: Video Capture,TV Input,Radio Input,Audio Input, Other Features: FM Radio Tuner

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Best Input Adapters for Linux

Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1250 1196 Video Capture

SYBA Port Expansion Cards

Diamond.com TV Wonder HD 650 TVW650PCIE Input

Swann Communications PC-DVR-4 NET SWRPCDVR4 Video

Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1950 1192 Video Capture

ASUS My Cinema-PHC3-100/NAQ/FM/AV/RC TV Input

Xonar Dx/xd Low Profile 7.1 Channel Audio Card Pci-e

Sabrent TV-PCIRC

KWorld ATSC 120 KWATSC120 Video Capture

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