Hi all, I have some questions about dealing with, well, the "world" to get my tv card to work. The card is a bttv878. I have an nvidia GeForce IIMX (AGP) graphics card and use nvidia's own 'NVdriver' XFree86 module. Now, I've found immense confusion on the net concerning what to get from who, and what it will provide. I'm advised by the authors of 'zapping' (cool tv app, zapping.sourceforge.net) that "everything should work" when you use v4l2 and bttv2. I've been to http://bttv-v4l2.sourceforge.net and found some stuff there, and also to http://www.thedirks.org/v4l2/ with more stuff. I gather that the latter is maintaining the videodevX stuff, whilst the former is maintaining the driver (bttv2)? One major problem I have had in running these is that as soon as I open zapping, I get 50% or so cpu usage. I'm told that this is due to a bug somewhere stopping, er, something from using the nvidia card's hardware scaler. Any ideas who to prod about this? This problem also affects the ability to open the tv window up to more than 640x480, and also fullscreen. Indeed, under v4l2 fullscreen is actually a 640x480 image with black border around it, with only the leftmost 20% moving, the rest is corrupt. I've just put 'Load "v4l"' back into my XFree86 4.1 config file and now zapping opens with practically no cpu uasge, however clearly it cannot use hardware scaling. It would appear that if I want fullscreen, I use v4l2 and accept the 640x480 screen res drop, or use v4l1 and accept that I cannot use hardware scaling. Oh, and I cannot take screen captures without it going into a high-cpu low-framerate mode. So, does anyone know what the current situation on this lot is, what I should be using, and who to prod to get what to work? Also, if I compile and install videodeX from thedirks.org, am I supposed to remove the 'Load "v2l"' line from the XFree86 config file? The webpage doesn't make any mention of it... Many thanks, James Green
