On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 05:15, Steve Tell wrote: > On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > > > On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:14:44 -0400 > > "Robert Liguori" <liguorir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Here are the chipsets on the board, which one is sound? > > > CONEXANT FUSION 878A > > > > Dumb question from me: > > > > A CONEXANT chipset? I have a new WinTV GO that changed from the BTTV chip > > Connexant bought Brooktree quite some time ago. > Their '878 and '879 are minor evolutions of the Bt848, and work great with > the bttv driver - except for audio sometimes, since card designers seem to > revel in wiring up the audio differently on every single card. > > Connexant's new CX2388x on the other hand has exactly the problem you > mention: appearing stealthily in similarly named products, but different > enough to need a whole new driver. > An early prototype v4l driver has been mentioned on this list recently: > > "Linux driver is pre-alpha, http://bytesex.org/cx88/ - Gerd" This seems to be v4l2, and thus causes problems with my current kernel (as in v4l2 is not supported in it). I will see what happens with a newer kernel. I can deal with beta. I want single frame capture. I currently use an AXIS network box for this. Nice, but a bit of a PITA as it deals with interlacing in a bad way. We went to all the trouble to get a Sony camera that takes the whole frame at the same time, and gives out the odd/even fields as expected. When they are put together, no tear. We then found that the AXIS takes odd fields from one frame and even from the next. So, the great work of the Sony camera is still wasted. So, we are moving to a PCI grabber. Given that we want only occasional frames (no more than a couple a second) and that we do not need sound, we felt an inexpensive WinTV GO was the way to go.
