Thanks, Justin. I just wanted to confirm it's most likely a hardware
failure, before I replaced it.
I've just ordered an STB DesktopTV card (Bt848, TV/FM, S-Video) from
computergeeks.com for $37, thanks to whoeveer posted that link. Can't go
wrong at that price!
I assume it'll work with bttv. :-)
Ben
Justin Schoeman wrote:
>
> Benedict Bridgwater wrote:
> >
> > Hi Justin,
> >
> > I've attached a picture of myself I just snapped with xawtv.
> >
> > You can see that actually there's "ringing" off the edge of my head as
> > well as off the left of the picture.
> >
> > Does this look like what you've seen before?
> >
> > FWIW my PC otherwise seems fine.
>
> No, sorry - this is different from what I thought you described. This
> definitely looks like the agc is falling apart. One test you could try,
> is to use bttv2, then run vidpanel. Turn off all the AGCs, and use the
> colour controls to set it by hand. See if you still get the distortion.
>
> If the distortion goes away, then it is probably the AGCs, which would
> probably not be feasible to fix. It could also be the external
> capacitors - sometimes cleaning the board even helps...
>
> Good luck!
>
> -justin
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