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Most common TV card chips are the BT848 and the BT878.
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I have always found TV card drivers and related apps. to be extremely buggy for some reason or another.
Although I do not have a PB TV card, I have a Hauppauge TV card and the drivers and apps. written for it are buggy. For example, it was pot luck as to whether (under Windows XP or 2000) as to whether the computer would either crash with a blue screen or just freeze up. Either way, it was annoying, and ironically the drivers were more stable under Windows 98 than under XP/2000.
I then found these open source drivers - superb. It still froze at times but not as much and it never blue screened (OK, still not great but a step in the right direction.
). With the new release of the drivers all of the freezing problems had went away and everything has been smooth so far. Never looked back since. They also work well with XP on my new computer and worked well with 2000 on my old machine.
http://btwincap.sourceforge.net/