TV Tuner cardbus

[Lars Engels]

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 08:52:55AM +0200, Frederic Chardon wrote:
> 2008/6/13 Tom Evans <tevans.uk at googlemail.com>:
> 
> >
> > On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 13:41 +0200, Frederic Chardon wrote:
> > > Hello the list!
> > >
> > > I want to buy a TV tuner for my laptop to have a simple S-video input.
> > After
> > > some googling it appears it is not so simple...
> > > Does the chipset PHILIPS SAA7134 is supported or still not? I ask before
> > it
> > > seems much more common than the bt8xx. As the manufacturers rarely say
> > what
> > > type of chipset is included on the card, is there a kind of list
> > somewhere?
> > > Can someone share his/her experience with such things and know some cards
> > > that Just Work?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > Frederic
> >
> > Hi Frederic. The kbtv2 port has included a driver for SAA713x based
> > boards, but only for a few cards, and (iirc) only for composite capture.
> > Since thats what you want, it may work out ok. Buy the card locally, and
> > ask if you can take it back if it doesn't work...
> >
> > Tom
> 
> 
> Thanks Tom, I will give it a try :-) It looks very promising


Please give some feedback if it works or not. :)

Lars
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