Thanks for the reply Michel. The card is an old 878 based card. I am not a video or linux guru by any means, a newbie for the most part. What do you mean by software image reduction. Can you be more basic and detailed with your answer? Are you saying it is xawtv or some settings? Thanks again, David -----Original Message----- From: Michel Bardiaux [mailto:mbardiaux@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 3:15 AM To: video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: capture card recomendations 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. -- Michel Bardiaux Peaktime Belgium S.A. Bd. du Souverain, 191 B-1160 Bruxelles Tel : +32 2 790.29.41 -- video4linux-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:video4linux-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list C
