TV tuner or video capture card recommendation

[Shlomo Solomon]

I have a VERY old no-name PCI TV tuner which has started to cause
problems (choppy video and no sound). Until recently it worked fine
and I could watch TV using TVtime or XawTV. I honestly don't know if
the problem is software (maybe caused by an upgrade?) or hardware (a bad
cable or connection or the card itself). But because it's so old, it's
probably not worth saving.

There are lots of articles on the net about hardware, drivers,
installation, what works or doesn't, etc. But I'm looking for firsthand
experience. For example, I've seen various articles about EasyCap or
EZCap working/not working. I do know that there are several similar
pieces of hardware using different chipsets, so it's hard to depend on
these articles. In fact, about a year ago I bought a card on eBay but
had no luck getting it to work.

My needs are really simple:
1 - USB connection
2 - can capture analog video and audio from a YES "MEMIR"
3 - works on Mageia and/or Raspberry PI Raspbian
4 - preferably work with TVtime, but any other workable software is OK


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Shlomo Solomon
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