I ordered a TV Tuner card but the installation guides in Swedish. I think its only a software installation guide for their shitty Windows program anyway though so fuck it.

So I slipped the card into an available PCI slot in my comp but I noticed there are 3 or 4 little rectangular sockets on this card but I don't know what they're for. They didn't give me any wires to go with them though so they're probably not important.

I'm on Linux and I don't wanna install they're shit program with WINE can I use any TV Tuner program with any TV Tuner card? I hear MythTV is a good one for Linux. Would that work with any TV Tuner card.

The card came with a few accessories such as a remote control with buttons like TV, Music, Picture, Video, Radio, DVD and Play/Pause, Stop and all that kinda shit. What the hell would I control with this remote though?

They threw in an adapter with a male AUX connector (I have no idea what this type of plug is all I know is it goes into the slot that says AUX on the tuner card. Is AUX similar to RF signal?) and 4 female connectors (S-VIDEO, yellow video RCA, green audio out RCA and a blue audio in RCA).

They threw in what looks like an IR sensor (now I know what the remotes for) connected to an audio jack. Fuckin hell that things slick I didn't think you could get cheap little IR sensors like that.

Other accessories are a wire with an audio jack on each end and a little wire with a female RF connector on one end and two plastic things on the other end?!?!

Thats all of it. The first thing I need to do is backup some VHS's onto my harddrive but right now I only have an RF wire. Would RF be shit quality? My VCR doesn't have an S-VIDEO socket it only has composite video. Should I just wait till I get a composite video wire or would the difference in quality be negligable if I used the RF wire?

I also wanted to get TV signals into my computer but I don't have a socket anywhere near my comp. Should I just buy a real long RF wire or is there another way to do it? Can you get converters that you plug directly into normal electrical outlets? I don't know how that kinda shit works but I saw ethernet sockets that you just plug directly into electrical sockets so if it works for ethernet I assume it'll work for TV signals.

could you take a picture and label what youa re talking about? since they are random colors and there are 50 names for each kind of cable/connector

also I'm thinking those rectangular ones are HDMI ports? but why 4 of them?

Alright I dont have a camera so I had to settle for my webcam

Heres that adapter I was talking about. Heres one end all the black is S-VIDEO, the colored ones are RCA plugs, the yellows labelled Video, the blue Audio IN and the green Audio OUT
http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/799/0012im3.jpg

Heres the other end the wires its not labelled just has an arrow pointing towards the plug
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/3200/0013ps3.jpg


I have no idea what the hell this things for
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/2350/00167qx9.jpg
Its just a female RF plug those plastic things on the other end

I've got the tuner card installed so I can't take a picture of it right now but heres a plate that came with it that labels all the sockets
http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/8206/10622805jm0.jpg
Heres the labels from top to bottom: FM, TV, AUX, RM, 957VB-4


Fuckin hell they're shit pictures but u can see what they are at least

Maybe if the different brand cards used the same chipsets you might be lucky.

Look up the chips you can see on your card and google tv tuner cards plus the tuner chip number.
You might get some hits for other brands.

Regarding what you have ...
Have you gone to the company website?
They probably have an english manual online plus specs in english.

If not , use this swedish webpage translator:
http://www.translation-guide.com/free_online_translators.php?from=English&to=Swedish