[AG-TECH] Capture cards problems, URGENT
Jeremy Mann
jeremymann at gmail.com
Wed Apr 4 09:59:15 CDT 2007
John, I'm in the same predicament here with XP and 2 WinTV capture
cards. I've installed the open source drivers, however I can't specify
which Composite port to use and it doesn't come up with my 2nd capture
card. What is the registry renaming?
On 6/21/06, John Hodrien <johnh at comp.leeds.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Thomas D. Uram wrote:
>
> > Hi Natalia:
> >
> > I have used two WinTV cards under WinXP. With AG2, you have to use the
> > VFW drivers. With AG 3.0.1, you should use WDM (the next release will support
> > the use of either VFW or WDM).
>
> I've used the open source drivers happily with 3 cards under windows. The
> normal registry renaming is required since all cards get the same name.
>
> http://btwincap.sourceforge.net/supportedcards.html
>
> > There's a long history of success using multiple WinTV cards in Linux, so
> > that should not be any problem.
>
> Yep, no problems at all with 3 bt878 cards under Fedora.
>
> > I have not used the Pinnacle PCTV card; maybe someone else can comment there.
>
> We had Pinnacle Rave cards (or similar) with SAA7134 chipsets, and the drivers
> didn't support more than one card under windows. Works fine under linux.
>
> jh
>
> --
> "You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists."
> -- Anatole France
>
>
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Jeremy Mann
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