Review: STUDIO PCTV Card

[Jeff Barker]

This was a very great email.  I liked it a lot.  :)

I have been silently wondering to myself "I wonder what would be a good video 
card to get for Linux that will do video capture" blah blah blah.

Thanks for the tip!


On Sunday 30 December 2001 05:47 pm, you wrote:
> So, Santa stopped by and drops off a
> Pinnacle Systems Studio PCTV Pro card.
>
> This card supports Stereo TV, and has an FM tuner.
>
> Installation was simple since it uses the BT848 chipset
> it is supported under Linux and the *BSD family.
>
> I spent most of the time ( 10 minutes )
> rebuilding my FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE kernel, building fxtv
> from ports ( 5 minutes) for the card.
> A quick reboot and everything was ready to go.
> Started X and ran "fxtv" and I am watching M*A*S*H while I
> type this email.
>
> Video Capture is nice, point and click ( the horrors! ) and
> system resource usage is reasonable at 4.2M of RAM and
> 20% CPU in capture mode as reported by top.
> The system is FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE, AMD K6-300, 320MB RAM.
>
> If you are looking at doing Video Capture or just want to
> watch TV while you work at the keyboard, check this one out.
>
> I haven't figured out how to get the remote control to work yet.
>
> HTH. HAND. Happy New Year!
>
> --
> Jean Francois - JLF Sends...
> "Tell them we are not Gods, but SysAdmins, which is the next best thing."
>
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