I highly recommend the Happauge (not sure if that's spelled right) PV-250, it's got on-board encoding, and very good support. On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 11:52, Coume - Lubox.com wrote: > Hello, > > My ATI all-in-wonder (2years old model) died one week ago... R.I.P. > But this decided to build a new computer from scratch, brand new and the > most important only running linux... > As this computer is aimed at being a "multimedia box", in fact it's in > my room and it is my Tv (linked to my VHS player), DVD player, music > player, etc.. > I need to find hardware that are totally compatible with linux, and > that's the more difficult thing to me :( > > The most important one is the TV-tuner and the Video card... > > Is one of you actually using a TV-tuner under linux? Which one would you > advice me?? > - good quality of tuner > - The perfect thing would be with integrated MPEG2 encoding/decoding > - with a TV-out and TV-in > - a remote (integrated or an added one if it can work under linux) > > Any advice and experiences with your TV-tuner and video cards, the one > to avoid or the one to buy! Feel free to let me know :) > > Thxs in advance > Ludo > ________________________________________________________________ > http://www.lubox.com - http://forum.lubox.com > Email Services, How-To (Linux,PHP,...), Freeware... > Come have a look, and you can even drop a msg on the forum! -- Adam Voigt adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx