PCI TV Card for Linux with good composite quality

[CX23882-19]

Hi,
I'm looking for a PCI TV card which has good quality Composite video input. I don't need anything else other than Composite. I need it to work in Mandriva 2007.0.

I'm currently using a pair of cards with the BT878 chipset, and although they work in Linux, their composite quality is rather poor. I understand that a card based on the Philips SAA713x chipset may be a good choice, and there are plenty of these available for cheap on eBay, but I don't know how good the composite input is going to be. The chipset can be good but if the PCB design is poor quality I don't think it will matter.

I'm looking at the K-World card at the moment.

Thanks

[Funkstar]

Last time I used TV cards and linux was a few years ago, so this might not be very up to date.

k-world certainally used to be good, which was surprising as they were amongst the cheapest cards areound at the time.

They aren't cheap, but the Hauppauge PVR cards are very good and very compatible with linux due to them being very popular. I think the PVR-150 is the bottom end card, but the analogue section is still good. The PVR-300 has hardware MPEG-2 capture and the PVR-500 is a dual tuner version of the PVR-300..... if i remember all that correctly that is

[Tifosi]

bump.. I'm also interested in this.

I'm looking at PEAK and KWorld PCI DVB-T cards although I cannot figure out which chipset the PEAK cards are based on.

http://www.peakhardware.com/products...l.asp?PAID=382

I've come to the conclusion that the Hauppauge Nova DVB-T PCI cards based on the BTTV chipset (earlier cards) may not be compatible with the latest MythTV builds, if this is incorrect please chime in.

I'm looking to run Ubuntu and MythTv

[Funkstar]

Unless I am very mistaken, MythTV shouldn't care what DVB-T card you are using as long as it has LinuxTV drivers.

This is the same as Windows TV apps that use the BDA driver model. As long as the card uses BDA drivers, the app doesn't care what card you are using.