Saa713x devices

Introduction

TV cards based on the saa713x chips are well supported. The picture quality is typically high, and the sound can be taken directly from the TV card or through a patch cable to your sound card. On the text capture front, both teletext and NTSC closed captioning are supported.

For an excellent guide, see Gentoo wiki's HARDWARE saa7134. See also Philips saa datasheets

Supported cards

See the list of currently supported saa7134 devices.

(This page design seems the best one -- a link to the supported cards, but then a list of the cards by vendor below, with links for help. The bttv and cx88 pages should be redesigned along the same lines.)

Sound support

Support for DMA sound, or sound taken directly off the PCI bus, has improved in the 2.6.16 kernel, thanks to the work of Ricardo Cerqueira and others. There are now two separate drivers for DMA sound, saa7134-alsa and saa7134-oss. In order to enable these in the kernel, you must first have selected support for ALSA and/or OSS under Sound. If you build both DMA devices as modules, you can use both alternately, though they cannot both be loaded at the same time.

While the saa7134-oss is listed as deprecated, there are still programs that have difficulties using ALSA's device enumeration, and the oss module remains useful.

These modules do not require parameters during insertion; for details see saa7134-alsa.

Installation

See Generic SAA7134 Card Installation for how to properly setup your saa7134-based tv tuner card or use the installation instructions for your specific card:

Avermedia

As described in AverTV 305/307 linux user guide (russian), the following cards are supported:

• AVerTV 305
• AVerTV Studio 305
• AVerTV 307
• AVerTV Studio 307

In addition, the following cards are known to work:

• AVerMedia Cardbus E500
• AVerMedia Cardbus Plus E501R (russian)
• AverMedia M156 / Medion 2819
• AVerMedia DVD EZMaker
• AVerMedia AVerTV GO 007
• Avermedia AVerTV GO 007 FM
• AVerMedia AVerTVHD MCE A180
• AVerMedia Cardbus Hybrid TV FM E506R

Bona

The brand is also refered to as Mentor. Bona Website

• Bona TV-PCI

Compro

• Compro VideoMate T300
• Compro VideoMate T200a
• Compro VideoMate T200
• Compro VideoMate TV Gold-Plus
• Compro VideoMate TV PVR/FM
• Compro VideoMate TV Gold-Plus PAL

KNC One (KNC1)

• KNC One TV-Station DVR
• KNC One TV-Station RDS / Typhoon TV Tuner RDS

KWorld

• Studio TV Terminator
• Kworld NB-TV 100 (VS-NBTV100) CardBus

Lifeview

• FlyVIDEO2000
• FlyVideo3000FM and FlyVideo3000
• FlyVideo3000 PAL-N
• FlyDVB-T Hybrid, CardBus or PCI
• FlyDVB-T Duo CardBuS PAL
• FlyTV Platinum

Mercury

• Mercury TV PAL

Pearl

• Auvisio TV Tuner & Video Capture Card

Pinnacle

• Pinnacle PCTV 40i
• Pinnacle PCTV 50i
• Pinnacle PCTV 110i
• Pinnacle PCTV 300i
• Pinnacle PCTV 310i
• Pinnacle PCTV Stereo
• Pinnacle PCTV Stereo XE

Sabrent

• Sabrent SBT-TVFM

Terratec

• Terratec Cinergy 250 PCI
• Terratec Cinergy 400
• Terratec Cinergy 400TV mobile
• Terratec Cinergy 600
• Terratec Cinergy HT PCI

Tevion

• Tevion MD 9717
• Tevion DVBT-220RF

Vivanco

• Vivanco Cardbus DVB-T

Other

• [[SmartTV Card]http://www.linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/Smartv_card]