David McBride wrote:
> I have a WinTV Go card in a Manrdake 9.1 system useing Xawtv.
> Hardware is a P4 2.4 GHz and 256MB RAM. I am using bttv 0.9.12 and
> v4l2. I want to be able to record video for streaming. Right now
> the WinTV Go card is giving poor quality (grainy or blocky) when
> there is movement. I have noticed that the bigger the picture the
> less blocky it is. I want to be able to stream to low bandwidth
> usres, so I need a small window. Can anyone tell me if I need to look
> into a better capture card or to look into software issues?
>
> Thanks, David
Go for software image reduction. With a P4-2.4 you should not have any
performance problems: here we do real-time MPEG1 encoding from 2 cards,
including spatial decimation by 2 on a P4-2.4 with 512MB. HTH.
BTW is your WinTV-GO one of the 'old' 878-based or one of the 'new'
based on the 88x? I might have missed the announcement of the 88x driver.
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