[ILUG] cheap linux compatible tv tuner cards

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Pádraig Brady wrote:

> Model ?

Manual says "Pinnacle PCTV Stereo", lspci says:

01:08.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7134 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Pinnacle Systems Inc. Pinnacle PCTV Stereo (saa7134)
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 201
        Memory at ed002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]

> Don't forget about deinterlacing:
> http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_7_4/dvd-benchmark-part-5-progressive-10-2000.html
> 
> mplayer has good support for deinterlacing:
> Try adding the `-vf pp=lb` option.
> Other methods to try instead of lb are li,ci,md

Must try that out, thanks.  I'm currently working with a rabbit's ears so
the signals so poor I'll hardly tell the difference :-)

> Note I found tvtime a much easier app to use than mplayer.
> Definitely recommended.

I've used it too and it is nice.  I mainly went for mplayer in order to use
mencoder.  As it's a royal PITA to configure I thought I might document it.

Gavin