Frank, I have moved all equipment to a windows set up for now and the linux box is disconnected for the moment, so I'll have to get back to you on the details of this box later on.
It seems when i move up the bitrate quite a bit the "rythm" dissapears. I guess the value is dependent on machine speed etc. The linux box is a 166 MHz machine with 64Mb RAM. Intel motherboard (not sure which model, but no via chipset), so this is not top of the line, but encoding has worked fine. I'm a bit surprised that apparently signal strength is pretty important for the card to synchronize properly to the video signal. It might be a huge timesaver for the less experienced user when all the different parameters which the card supports were explained somewhere. Something like if you change parameter x you can expect the image to do this, or if your video looks like this you might try changing parameter y. The basis parameters are pretyy clear, but the more obscure parameters really need an explanation. Thanks for your help so far. Marcel Frank Rosengart wrote: > > Marcel van der Boom wrote: > > >>Frank, >> >>I took another video source, another video cable and all possible >>combinations of them. >> >>Especially when the video-signal is strong it seems to improve, nearly >>good in fact as image quality is concerned. >> >>However, the rythm remains. The video isn't running smooth. Each half a >>second or so, the image stops for about a quarter of a second and then >>moves on. Audio seems to be pretty well synchronized. >> > > can you give me a detailed description of your setup? > > Mainboard/Chipset, lspci -v, cat /proc/interrupts, Linux kernel version, > lsmod ? > > regards > > #frank > > > > -- Marcel van der Boom HS-Development BV Kwartiersedijk 14B Fijnaart, The Netherlands Tel. : 0168-468822 Fax. : 0168-468823 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]