On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 15:46, Dave Schwartzburg wrote: > I am currently thinking about getting a video card with TV input > capability. The two I am looking at are the ATI All-in-wonder 8500 w/ > 128mb ddr ram. The other is the nVidia GeForce4 Ti 4200 Personal Cinema.
I have experience with an ATI card (the TV Wonder, I think) and it has been great under Linux. I use it with my game consoles for making screen grabs and playing when the TV is otherwise disposed (i.e. Mandy's watching something). I haven't used it for output (not sure if my card does it), but I have made movies using streamer/xawtv and have been pleased with the ease of use, from the command line. One hint I can give: don't forget to switch your system to take audio input from the line-in (not microphone) if you're recording audio and video. That drove me crazy. I ended up setting this through the GNOME2 audio mixer. Also, if anyone knows: I can't get the MPEG encoder to deal with video recorded at anything but 24fps. What's up with that? I can dig up the error if someone wants, but it's really unusual. Something about a pel ratio. At 24fps, it's not bad, but video games with fast moving objects can show a jerkiness that's unfortunate. matt -- Matt Matthews \ ph: 919.660.2811 \ Use GNU/Linux _o) w00t Duke Univ., Postdoc\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \____________ /\\ Dept. of Mathematics\ http://www.math.duke.edu/~jvmatthe/ \ _\_V
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