I'd like to post an update or two to my problem.
First, it seems I was imagining the difference in behavior between xawtv
and grabbo. There is a difference, but it seems it was mainly due to
image artifacts resulting from a difference in image size. So, ignore
this line of thought. xawtv looks like grabbo. Still, good to know
that it's not xawtv's fault :)
Second, I wanted to add that I checked both the kernel and XFree86 logs
and there were no errors in loading the bttv driver, savage driver, or
xvideo extension.
That's all for now - thanks.
-Nathan
