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Good afternoon, Kwan...

On Friday 24 January 2003 09:12 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Dave Laird wrote:
> > Xaitv not only works better than Xawtv 'out of the box', as it comes up
> > the first time with the audio on and the picture in place. It is also
> > much more compliant when you have a number of other applications present
> > on the desktop simultaneously.
>
> I've been using the gatos/xatitv since I got the card a couple years
> ago. From what I've read, xawtv does not support the AIW pre-Radeons.
> Xatitv does, but there may be problems with using the v4l devices.

Actually I was able, with some "fudge factoring", to get xawtv to work with my
pre-Radeon AIW Card, but it took some pretty proficient swearing and a bit of
twitching with configuration files to get the job done. Even then, the
interface was a bit shaky, with some portions of it that didn't work at all.
(such as frame-grabbing). 

> BTW, the TV-Wonder VE (a low end add-on card available for ~ $20 on
> sale) works with xawtv.

I never heard of that card. Who manufactures it?

> > When you resize the TV screen, however, it undergoes a bit of what I
> > might term instability, as the picture shakes and quakes like a mouse in
> > the presence of a convention of eagles hungry for dinner. However, be
> > patient. Eventually it resizes itself to the frame that you selected and
> > all is once again well.
>
> I notice this too.

However, in its defense, it has a lot more of the configurability that I have
come to expect of Mandrake. I can hardly wait until v42 comes out of the
cooker and is ready for use with KDE. I understand it is a lot more reliable
and thus might work with streaming video better. Can we dare imagine it,
watching a VCR/DVD movie while we work?  8-)

Dave
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Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project 
Web Page:   http://www.kharma.net updated 01/20/2003
Year 2 of running Mandrake Linux workstation on a 100% Microsoft-free system.
                                           
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                -- Dr. Who
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