Hi, I sent this to the list with a bunch of images attached and it didn't make it through (probably best). I've edited it a bit and the long version is now on a web page (the URL is below).
I have both an IDS Falcon Quattro and an iTuner Spectra 8 which I'm experimenting with under WinXP on different machines. They both behave pretty much the same way for me (and not satisfactorily) so first I'm wondering if anyone has a configuration running WinXP that can actually deliver 3 or 4 good quality streams. If so could you let me know the magic in terms of hardware/software/ registry-hacks that you used to make it go (at least for the Spectra)? Secondly, I know that there are a number of people who run Linux with the iTuner card: are there any tricks to getting 4 streams out under Linux? Is a 2.6 kernel compiled with VfL and the 0.9.something version of the bttv driver enough or is there more to make it work? I know the Falcon works (for 3 streams anyway) with the bttv 0.7.something drivers and a 2.4 kernel. The long description of what is happening can be found at: http://tyr.cns.ualberta.ca/VideoCapture/VideoCapture.html and some images of the steps that I describe. Basically under XP, I add 4 video producers and I get 2 good color streams, one jumpy b/w stream and vic eventually gives up on trying to connect to the video source for one input. The b/w stream is always the input labelled Vin 1 on the Spectra card and the one that chokes is always Vin 4. I'd appreciate any help in getting all 4 streams working on these (at least the Spectra) cards. Yes, I should have got a Videum ... Thanks, Jon. -- Jon I Johansson * Research Computing Support jon.johans...@ualberta.ca * Computing and Network Services Tel.: (780) 492-9304 * University of Alberta Fax.: (780) 492-1729 * Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA
