Looking for Multimedia Hardware Recommendations

revoohc · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Oct 2002 Posts: 128

Hey Everyone,

I am building my personal workstation/server and am looking for some recommendations. The box is a Dell 600SC server with a 1.8 GHz Celeron processor.

Anyway, I was wanting to add a nice high end sound card and a good tv card and am looking for recommendations. Currently all of my pci slots are open. I have 1 33bit and 4 66 bit slots.

Any recommendations would be appreciated.

Thanks,

chris

scrllock · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Oct 2002 Posts: 102

Well, I'd like to reccoment the M-Audio Revolution 7.1

Works in ALSA, and it supports hardware mixing, and the sound quality is superb. As for video, people seem to like hauppage.

metalac · Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2003 12:35 am Post subject:

yeah hauppage seem sto be the best supported of all the video cards. Most PVR projects are based on them.
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mark · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Jun 2002 Posts: 119

I use an RME 96pad

Ive only used it for outputting wavs and mplayer's audio. Its pretty high end though. The sound quality is very good.

I seem to remember reading there was a probling sampling at 24 bit but this was a while back and may have been fixed by alsa.

the latest thing in linux tv seems to be the hauppage pvr250/350 it haas onboard mpeg2 encoding. However the drivers are alph so its kind of early. Not tried this one myself.

Mark
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