Video capture card
Video Capture Cards are used to get the picture from the cable, aerial, or satellite television source into the PC.
- There is a Capture Card Matrix with some basic information about known cards.
Contents
Cards that work
ATSC (HDTV) cards
- pcHDTV HD-2000 (V4L w/pcHDTV patch -or- dvb driver) (Terrestrial only) (replaced by HD-3000)
- pcHDTV HD-3000 (V4L w/pcHDTV patch -or- dvb driver) (Terrestrial and clear QAM)
- Air2PC (dvb drivers) (Terrestrial and clear QAM) (replaced by AirStar 5000)
- AirStar 5000 (dvb drivers) (Terrestrial and clear QAM)
- ATI HDTV Wonder (dvb drivers) (Terrestrial, clear QAM?)
- FusionHDTV 5 Gold or Lite (dvb & v4l cvs, mm kernels) (Terrestrial and clear QAM)
Hardware Encoder cards
- iTVC15 family of MPEG encoders supported by the IVTV drivers
- Matrox Marvel G200/G400 MJPEG encoders
Software Encoder cards
- BrookTree (bttv) based cards. NOTE: The bttv page includes kernel parameters and links to vendor specs.
- BT848
- Hauppauge WinTV-Go
- ATI TV-Wonder
- ATI TV-Wonder VE
- Hauppauge WinTV
- Leadtek WinFast
- Leadtek WinView 601
- Pinnacle PCTV Studio
- Pinnacle PCTV Studio Pro
- Lifeview Fly Video II (Bt848) LR26 / MAXI TV Video PCI2 LR26
- Lifeview Fly Video 98 LR50 / Chronos Video Shuttle II
- Lifeview Fly Video 98/ Lucky Star Image World ConferenceTV LR50
- Lifeview Fly Video 98/ MAXI TV Video PCI2 LR50
- Lifeview Fly Video 98FM LR50 / Typhoon TView TV/FM Tuner
- Lifeview Fly Video 2000 /Fly Video A2/ Lifetec LT 9415 TV [LR90]
- Prolink PV-BT878P+4E / Lenco MXTV-9578 CP
- Prolink Pixel View PlayTV pro / Pixel View PlayTV PAK
- AVerMedia TVCapture 98
- STB TV PCI FM, Gateway P/N 6000704 (bt878)
- 3Dfx VoodooTV 100, Gateway P/N 6000699 (btt878)
- Sigma TVII-FM
- Zoltrix Genie TV/FM / TV-Max (people reported having Audio Issues with card)
- Sabrent TVTuner (bt878)
- BT878 (Takes an MPEG2 HDTV(?) stream)
- ATSC - pcHDTV / HD-2000
- BT848
- Philips SAA7134-based cards
- Terratec Cinergy 400
- Terratec Cinergy 600
DVB Cards
- Hauppauge WinTV-Nova-T PCI Cards
- Avermedia DVB-T (Bt8xx)
- Nebula Electronics DigiTV PCI (Bt878, Nxt6000)
- Pinnacle PCTV DVB-S (Bt878)
- Technisat Sky Star 2 PCI
- Hauppauge Nova-T (Digital Terrestrial)
- Hauppauge Nova-S (Digital Satellite)
- Hauppauge Nexus-S (STV02998 based) Mpeg Encoder
- DVICO FusionHDTV DVB-T (More Info)
- DNTV Live! DVB-T Pro (More Info)
- Leadtek LR6650 DVB-T and other cards based on the Conexant 'reference' DVB-T design.
USB Capture Cards
Cards that won't work
- ATI All-in-Wonder cards
The ATI drivers provide a kernel module for basic V4L support which allows for capturing video from the device as it is playing. They do not, however, provide the tuner functions necessary for MythTV to select channels. Instead, they implement their channel tuning using the Xv extensions of X-Windows. A solution might be to patch the MythTV source code to recognize the ATI hardware and use Xv frequency changing to change the channel rather than solely relying on the V4L tuning functions. Then it would depend on whether the V4L support for capture is adequate enough in the ATI drivers for MythTV to work. It also might be possible to use an externally called Xv channel changing utility to change the channels.
The ATI All-in-Wonder card cannot (it is said elsewhere on the internet) send video across the PCI bus. It can only show video on the VGA output on the card. It is on this basis that neither the card nor drivers are appropriate for use with mythtv.
- Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-Roslyn (P/N: 28552 on the TV Tuner).
- Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2 (MPEG2 encoder box with USB2.0)
- http://pvrusb2.dax.nu/ a bare but apparently functioning userspace driver, no V4L so no MythTV for now.
- There is a V4L driver for this card, at http://justiceforall.free.fr/pvrusb2.html But I'm not sure if it'll work with mythtv ;).
- Cards based on the Conexant cx23416 MPEG encoder chip not already supported under ivtv (e.g. PVR2000).. development work has been done but cannot be considered a good solution for mythtv (yet).
