TV-in support

[Matt Thrailkill]

AFAIK, tv-in support isn't handled by Xorg.  Instead, you have
Video4Linux capture drivers in the kernel.  If you card is supported,
you will have a /dev/videoN (where N is some number, starting from 0)
device node for it.  Programs that take tv input, like tvtime or
mythtv or mplayer then open this device, read things from it, and show
you the video.  Xorg doesn't have anything to do with that.

So, you may want to check out the tv tuner support in the latest
kernels.  Also, check out the tvtv project
(http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Main_Page) which maintains some other
drivers -- I use their driver for my Hauppauge PVR500 card.

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Marek Szuba<scriptkiddie at wp.pl> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is there any documentation available for TV-in support in X.org, in
> particular a listing of supported video cards? All I have been able to
> find on-line is the Web site of the GATOS project, which seems greatly
> outdated (and ATI-specific, which however is not a problem for me as I
> do have a Radeon).
>
> Regards,
> --
> MS
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