[tech] tv tuner card

[Nick Bannon]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 09:09:00PM +0800, David Basden wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 07:56:55PM +0800, Paul Marinceu wrote:
[...]
> > Might be nice if it works in Linux too, but doesn't _have to_

Pah, of course they work with Linux. It's what they use for embedded
media appliances. As a marketing stunt, one HDTV vendor even sells a
card that _only_ works with Linux. ::-)

[...]
> I'm not up on the current cards, but go for something that has MPEG
> encoding onboard. That way your CPU won't get all loaded up with it.
> MPEG-4 is great, but won't play on a DVD player. Most DVD players these

Some will, Strathfield has a $179 and a $249 DVD player that will play
MPEG-4 (though perhaps not all the variations on MPEG-4).

Nick.

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