[plug] ananlog TV cards, was digital TV

[Craig Ringer]

> Whats the advantage of the saa7134 chip over the common BT878? (& 
> relatives) They are cheap, common, and work well under linux.
> I know the FlyVideo3000 has stereo - is that in the chip, or tuner?

I'm not entirely sure what you mean - sorry. I do get stereo audio from 
TV & radio. As for the advantage - I really couldn't say. saa7134 is 
more easily available, for sure. I got mine because it claimed "3rd 
party linux drivers" ... little did I know that alpha would've been 
over-optimistic. They work great now (9 months later) though.

> The weak link seems to be in the tuner modules, which need a better signal 
> than the tuners in real TVs or VCRs.

Can't say I've noticed, but then I never use the TV here except for a 
tv-output from my PC. The only reason I'm remotely interested in tv now 
is (a) the cool gadget factor and (b) because it's much more attractive 
when I can schedule recording, have convenient video files instead of 
battling tapes, and can easily seek through or cut out the crap.

Mine has occasional trouble locking on to SBS, but that's probably 
because of the apalling local interference.

> Mine works well on some channels, but has interference on ABC and SBS.

Ditto. SBS is close to unwatchable here. OTOH, I think that's my cable 
run as much as anything - it goes around the edge of the room, around 
the back of _five_ computers, on some occasions parallel to ethernet and 
power cords, to get to my machine. I've got to drop it under the floor 
some time. The interference so "sharp" that I think it's got to be local 
RF, not simply poor signal.

Craig Ringer

_______________________________________________
plug mailing list
plug at plug.linux.org.au
http://mail.plug.linux.org.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug