[SWLUG] Aldi TV Card

[Terry John]

I've been using a Leadtek Winfast VC100 card on Fedora. No TV tuner but great for video capture for webcam function. £20 delivered from Ebuyer. Out of stock at the mo unfortunately. The card is based on the Hauppauge (bt878) chipset.
 
The thing to bear in mind is the picture quality. If you want to burn DVD's make sure it can do MPEG-2 or 4. I'm not sure which one (Perhpas someone can clarify) but the point is that there are some low quality cards out there which are fine for web pages or small avi's etc but not really good enough for DVD's.
 
I'm waiting on a Winfast TV2000XP Expert card which is available from Ebuyer (When they go some more stock) or PC World online for about £40 delivered. I'm pretty sure it's the same chipset so I'm expecting good things of it. 
 
Terry

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: discuss-bounces at swlug.org.uk on behalf of Philip Barnes 
	Sent: Sat 15/01/2005 10:28 
	To: discuss at swlug.org.uk 
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	Subject: [SWLUG] Aldi TV Card
	
	

	Aldi are selling a PCI TV Card for £24.94, its a Tevion Xpert TV7134.
	
	The obvious questions really...
	  Does it work with linux?
	  Is it any good (for the money)?
	
	Thanks Phil
	
	
	
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