[AG-TECH] video card question

[Richard Naylor]

At 02:10 p.m. 11/08/2003 -0600, Cindy Sievers wrote:
>OK, I looked in the archives, and maybe I'm missing something.....
>What video cards are people using in PIG nodes (single machine XP) for 
>multiple camera video capture?
>I had 4 Hauppauge WinTV cards in my room based node (video machine running 
>linux). But when I rebuilt the room node on a single XP machine with only 
>2 available PCI slots, vic won't recognize even two Hauppauge cards.  The 
>PIG node seems to run everything else just fine, but I really need 4 
>cameras. What are others using for video capture on the PIGS?

A good card I'm testing is the Spectra-8 from www.ituner.com it has 4 
independent inputs with BT878 chips on each and looks to the system as 4 
Osprey cards. Its going into a bigger AG I'm trying to get going, but works 
well with other encoding software I use.

rich