Is this Capture card worth buying?

[Chilling_Silently]

From dse.co.nz
Cat #XH6765 (I havent worked out which part to cut from the URL yet ;-))

It says it supports Linux.
How much is it supported though...?

Im currently running 2.4.20-gentoo-r8 kernel, soon to be 2.6 (with V4L2 IIRC?!).

All I remember is that my bt878+ based card was a pain in the ass and never _actually_ got more than a b/w screen in Redhat 8 (It didnt like 9 - Apparently there's kernel issues since 2.4.20).

Is it worth the buy, and will you all help me should I screw up? ;-)

If nobody majorly objects, Im off to buy it tomorrow morning before heading out to help somebody compile the 2.6 kernel :-)

Cheers


Chill.

[exLL]

> From dse.co.nz
> Cat #XH6765 (I havent worked out which part to cut
> from the URL yet ;-))

Is this what you mean't?
click here

[exLL]

> Is this what you mean't?


I didn't mean mean't I meant meant.

[Chilling_Silently]

Yup :-)
That's the one...!

Its mainly coz it has Linux support (and isnt based on the bt878 chipset...!)

Im not sure... Go for it or not?

I want a capture card, but is this the one?

[Jester]

Ask them at DSE if it will do what you want. If they say it will and it won't, you can return it. If they don't know I am sure they will take it back anyway. They are pretty good at that sort of thing at DSE.

J

[agent_24]

i bought a capture card from them once, it was allright..

[Chilling_Silently]

Well, Ive bought it... Dunno how the hell to get it to work with the 2.6 kernel... And I really dont wanna have to go back to the 2.4 kernel (I s'pose I could, but that means recompiling the nVidia drvers etc...).

Has anybody done V4L with kernel-2.6 yet?