So this Fusion 878A has been around for awhile; is it really able to
capture the whole 20 megabit ATSC stream to disk? I don't care about
playback through the card, just capturing the stream..If so, then the
HDTV on Linux problem has been solved already (at least for what I
want to do, which is archive ATSC streams). Which is the preferred
878A card to use on Linux?
Yes, the Fusion 878A chip has been around for 3 or 4 years. About capturing
the ATSC stream to disk, work would have to be done in this project to
enable and control the front-end of the card (tuner and demodulator). Also,
I don't know status of Peter Hettkamp's code for streaming DVB-S on the
Pinnacle PCTV Sat, which would have to be repurposed for this task.