Thanks for this info. I plan to use the card mostly for video capture... I have a TV already ;-) The G450 eTV is not a full dual head card, but it has some strange dual display capabilities ie. Monitor and TV. The G400 Series TV/Editing card used to have hardware MPEG compression (AFAIK). Did Matrox remove these from the G450 eTV line? I could not find reference to it. Fast disks are a limiting factor as I only have UW SCSI HDD (40MB/s). At this time I am not ready to move to the 160MB/s SCSI standard, or a Firewire HDD. > Jon Pennington Wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:20:37AM -0600, Peter V Amerl wrote: >> Matrox G450 eTV card would be a good choice. I would like to be >> Has anyone tried this card? Does anyone know whether it works >> and how reliable it might be. Any other suggestions in the same >> price range? > I'm pretty sure this card isn't supported by V4L. To throw in my own > experience, the G450 DH card is enough of a PITA that I wouldn't recommend > it to anyone not interested in doing DH graphics work, either. It needs > proprietary libraries to work (not a big deal) and does some funny things > on my own system at home. Pity! > Are you looking to capture, or just watch? If you want to capture, you're > going to need fast disks or an MJPEG card like the DC10/30, but if you just > want to watch, any BT8x8 card will do the trick, such as a Huappauge WinTV > Go!, which can be had for under $50US. -- Peter V. Amerl
