On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 12:20:51 +1000 "Miles Baker" <milesinengland@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to get video capture working on an 878 based board with a VIA > EPIA motherboard, VIA C3-800 CPU. > > xawtv always works for me. streamer works, but only captures up to 15fps - I > need 25. I can successfully install vcr 1.09 with avifile0.6. However, on > Mandrake 8.1 and 8.2, and Redhat 7.2, executing vcr causes the PC to reboot. > I have tried with the kernels that come with these distros, as well as > 2.4.19. I have tried upgrading bttv to 0.7.65, and to 0.8.44 with videodevX > 20020330. One time I got vcr to actually capture, but it hung the machine on > quitting. > > I also tried zapping, but it will not start (says I have no mmx?). If anyone > can help me at all, or give me any suggestions of other capture programs to > try, I would really appreciate it. Meanwhile, I am probably going to have to > look at what is making streamer so slow, and try to fix it (ugh). > Tried newvideorecorder? I believe it's on Sourceforge. It's the only program I could get to record at full speed, and it ran for half an hour without missing frames. It's command-line, but I believe it's possible to run it together with a viewer. John Check: http://nvrec.sourceforge.net
