TV card remote [Re: [clug] Please recommend a TV Card for Linux]

[Joel Plane]

Thankyou all for your recommendations. My patients ended up getting the 
better of me and I bought the WinFast TV2000.
cx88 chipset.
It came with a remote control. I assumed the remote control would be 
mainly software driven, and it is. Is there any GNU software that is 
likely able to read the remote? Would there be a new device in /dev that 
I could fiddle around with in an attempt to write my own remote control 
handler program? Or would the remote control signal be sent thru 
/dev/video0?

As I've said many time before, I'm a newbie (at least compared to the 
rest of the list). And as such, I realise that I take a lot more from 
this list than I'm ever likely to give - so I just want to say thanks. 
So, thanks :)

Cheers.



Joel Plane wrote:

> Can anyone recommend a cheap TV card with some degree of Linux support?
>
> Two that I was looking at are:
> *LEADTEK WinFast TV2000 XP Expert
> **TV Excel TV Tuner *TV401U+RC
> Neither of these have Linux 'support' as such, but can anyone tell me 
> that they work on Linux to whatever degree?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Am I meant to put some sort of tag in the subject for this type of post?