TV card question

[Dr. M. Burek]

I have a iXMicro TV card coming to the house in the next few days. I've 
been looking for a PCI card that I could use in a Mac that I could 
afford for a while, now. I am happy enough with just a TV card, but I'd 
like to know if this card can also be used for video capture from an 
analog source. Sorry, I don't know right now what model he's sending me, 
but I do know it has a Brooktree bt848 chipset in it. Apparently, it was 
quite popular a couple years ago (pre - OS X), so there are quite a few 
around still being used. The guy I am getting it from never used it, so 
he didn't know anything about it or what it could do - otherwise I would 
not ask the list...

I did notice a site on SourceForge with a group that is/was developing 
OS X drivers for bt848 based cards. Are these worth the download? Anyone 
have any experience with them? Anything special I need to do to use them?

Thanks in advance to the list for any useful info. If it is necessary, 
when I get the card in the next few days I'll look at it and try to get 
it's particulars, to help y'all help me a little better.

Michael