>You can also get a PCI TV tuner card (e.g. Hauppage or AverMedia's >PCTV--anything based on the Brooktree chipset), load up the bttv >driver and have at it with all of the wonderful v4l (video for linux) >software out there. [<Yigal>] When money isn't issue: you have a point. My problem is that I already bought the DVC150 from Pinnacle - and I think it's a good product. I don't like PCI solution because I have to bend down to look for the cables - now it's all on the desk. The problem, I think, is because Pinnacle prefer to sell SW, not just HW, so they don't want to release Linux version which will might kill their software business (my guess). I wouldn't even ask for full Linux SW - I would settle just for the drivers, to allow any SW on the Linux side to interface the capturing device, but again - I assume it conflicts their business model. Is there any procedure in which Linux community ask a specific company to release Linux driver? What would be their motivation to do that?
