On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 10:57:18AM +1100, Da Munch wrote: > i.e. a avermedia 771 and yes it works and thanks to all the people who have > worked on the drivers for it > > anyway I lost a bit of hair setting it up cause for some reason (and yes > this is this question) some cards have tuners attached to the video device > (/dev/video*) while others like mine don't, which means certain programs > don't work with some cards -> like I can't use tvtime/xawtv ..... but I can > use xine,......? > > so, why is this so? Because your card doesn't have a hardware MPEG decoder. Those programs are expecting to get decoded video out of /dev/video0, and your card can't provide it. Xine however decodes in software. There's really no disadvantage. Unless things have changed, tvtime/xawtv are analog TV viewers and not relevant to digital TV. Use Xine instead. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@xxxxxxxxxx> <hamish@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
