Could to recommend a better card? Jesse
Quoting Mark Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > At 09:25 AM 12/3/02, you wrote: > >That card does work. I can watch TV through XawTV or Zapping, but I > >couldn't get > >XawTV's captureing to work properly. Plus it doesn't seem to have very > many > >formats to save to (like DivX). > > You can't rip a video source directly to DivX like that unless you have > some serious hardware. Generally you would record in an low compression or > uncompressed format then run a program like transcode to encode it to your > favourite format such as Mpeg 2 or 4. > > I wouldn't suggest capturing with XawTV either. I would look for another > Video4linux capture program. I can remember what I have used in the past > but it definitely wasn't XawTV. > > BTW the WinTV Go is not much of a capture card even though it is supported > under Linux. > -- > Mark Lane > Hard Data Ltd. > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Telephone: 01-780-456-9771 > FAX: 01-780-456-9772 > > 11060 - 166 Avenue > Edmonton, AB, Canada > T5X 1Y3 > > http://www.harddata.com/ > --> Ask me about our Affordable Alpha Systems! <-- > > > > >
