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.. a TV-card?

- Hauppauge WinTV PVR 250 ;)

(I'm testing it on my new Linux Multimedia machine with Mandrake 9.1)
 
iBook is ready-to-plug with tv.
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I don't have one on my computer and don't feel the need for one. I've already got a TV of my own so I'm fine here.
 
TV card? Yes...

My wife's system (RH 8.0, probably will upgrade to 9 shortly) has a Hauppauge TV card from a few years back. One of my systems has an ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon with Mandrake 9.1. Alas, I'm not set up to take full advantage of the ATI card yet...for some reason, when I installed Mandrake, it didn't get set up with the pertinent devices (/dev/video* or /dev/v4l/*), and I had to install the Gatos project ati.2 to be able to watch TV. Any pointers to software for Linux that will display captioning would be greatly appreciated! (I'm hearing, but sometimes I want to watch something other than my wife watches, and if I could get the captioning I could mute the sound and not bug her while she's got, say, Judging Amy (gag, retch :)) on...)
 
Hi jejones3141,

yes, I also have a new machine with AMD 2400XP+ CPU, ATI Radeon 9500 video card and MSI KT4V-L main board...

There are information about Linux drivers for Hauppauge WinTV PVR 250:
http://www.shspvr.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=763&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=240
http://ivtv.sourceforge.net./about.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ivtv/
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ivtv/ivtv/ivtv/

For captioning under Linux you can use Zapzilla:
http://zapping.sourceforge.net/Zapzilla.html

Note: the driver for old Hauppauge PVR and new Hauppauge PVR 250/350 are not the same.

Mandrake Linux 9.1 (with Kernel 2.4.21) doesn't actually support PVR 250, but I think you also can try following:

> lspcidrake -v -f

and then write a mail with information as above to install@mandrakesoft.com and subject "undetected TV card"
 
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