On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 16:20, Steve Dibb wrote: > I was thinking about getting a separate PCI TV Tuner card, but somehow > got it into my head that it may interfere with my AGP card's video or > something.
My WinTV card's analog circuitry that actually does the signal capture is completely enclosed in a little metal box on the card, so noise is minimized. Not completely gone, but definitely cuts out the majority of the computer's noise. Michael > > Steve > > Michael Halcrow wrote: > > > FYI, I just picked up a WinTV card for $50 the day before yesterday > > from Fry's. I'm running the 2.6.0-test7 kernel. I modprobe'd the > > tuner, bttv, and i2c_via (I have a VIA chipset mainboard), then fired > > up xawtv, and I was up and running. I've got my mission videos > > ripping straight to DivX/MP3 streams in realtime for burning onto > > DVD-R's. mencoder is amazing. :-) > > > > I can't speak for the Radeon cards. The Matrox g450 and g550 have > > drivers that can get framebuffer NTSC out. I've gotten marginal > > quality back in the day (the colors were a bit washed out), but now > > they are claiming that the quality is much improved. If you're into > > playing and capturing NTSC signals, a Matrox g450 and WinTV card may > > be the way to go. But if you want decent 3D acceleration, stick with > > the Radeon. > > > > Mike > > > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 01:29:38PM -0600, Steve Dibb wrote: > > > >>Does anyone out there have an ATI All In Wonder card that successfully > >>lets you watch TV in Linux? I've got an AIW Radeon 7500 that I can't get > >> it to be seen as a TV card at all. I've tried everything I could > >>think of, but never got it to work. It's just one of the few reasons > >>for not switching over to Linux as my primary desktop still. > >> > >>But, I wouldn't mind buying a new video card, if I need to - I figure > >>the newer ones might work okay under Linux, like the Radeon 9000, but I > >>watned to see if anyone else has gotten it to work. > >> > >>Thanks > >> > >>Steve > >> > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>newbies mailing list > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > newbies mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies > > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
